A soft, mildly sweet balsamic odor with faint fruity-floral and slightly waxy nuances. Quiet and rounded rather than sharp, it functions more as a smoothing solvent-fixative than a featured note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 174.
Colorless viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, poorly soluble in propylene glycol, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very mild floral-balsamic odor with woody-spicy undertone.
Useful in heavy florals with Ylang-Ylang, for Carnation, or as a blender-modifier-fixative or solvent with considerable tenacity and good stability against heat.
Produced by direct esterification of n-Butyl-alcohol with Benzoic acid applying azeotropic conditions.