A fresh, piney-camphoraceous top note with a green coniferous character reminiscent of fir needles and pine resin. Has a cool, slightly herbal-balsamic facet and a clean woody undertone that recalls borneol but softer and more diffusive.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 157.
Colorless liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, poorly soluble in propylene glycol and glycerin, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Somewhat green-earthy, yet refreshing odor with a pine-needle undertone.
Peculiar sweet taste, with a green-woody note.
This ester may be used in perfumes, but the author believes this is extremely rare.
It is used in a few types of fruit flavors, usually in mere traces. The fresh-green odor and sweet-herbaceous taste is useful in fancy imitation strawberry flavors and other fruit compositions.
Produced from borneol and formic acid in the cold with acid catalyst.