A soft, oily-fruity ester with a mild waxy-fatty character reminiscent of unripe pear skin and green apple peel. Fairly quiet and rounded, with a slightly herbal-green undertone rather than the bright sharpness of shorter-chain esters.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 180.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, poorly soluble in propylene glycol, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild herbaceous woody, but overall fruity oily odor with a faint, winey undertone.
Occasionally used in perfumes as a modifying fruity topnote in Oriental bases or as a new type fruity note in novelty fragrances.
Used in flavor compositions for Apricot, Cognac, Grape imitation flavors, etc.
Produced by direct esterification of iso-Butanol with n-octanoic acid.