A mild, sweet-floral aroma chemical with a soft fruity-balsamic character reminiscent of ylang and faint apple-pear nuances. Fairly quiet on a blotter — more of a rounding/blending note than a soloist.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 144.
Colorless oily liquid
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils
Soft, warm, herbaceous-rosy odor of moderate tenacity
This ester has found some use in perfume compositions where it may introduce very desirable notes in Rose and other floral fragrances, in Chypre, Oriental and heavy woody fragrance types, etc.
Produced from Phenylethyl alcohol and Methacrylic acid. Also directly from Acetone cyanhydrin when Benzyl alcohol is present in the reaction.