Iso-Butyl Benzoate is a mildly sweet, fruity-balsamic ester with a soft floral undertone reminiscent of ylang and cananga. It has a clean, slightly powdery character and lends a smooth, jammy quality to floral and fruity accords without much sharpness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 174.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Weak, but fresh and pleasant, tenacious orrisy odor with green-rosy undertones, less balsamic than the n-Butylester.
Used in flavor compositions for imitation Berry, Fruit, Cherry, Pineapple, Plum, etc.
Excellent fixative-blender for Orangeblossom, Orris and Violet bases, wild Rose, Sweet Pea, Acacia, Hyacinth, Ambre, etc.
Produced by direct esterification of iso-Butyl alcohol with Benzoic acid, applying azeotropic conditions.