A soft, sweet-balsamic cinnamic ester with a fruity-floral character — reminiscent of cinnamon flowers, cocoa and ripe berries but without the pungent bite of cinnamaldehyde. Rounder and more diffusive than methyl cinnamate, with a subtle powdery drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 181.
Colorless, slightly viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils, poorly soluble in propylene glycol.
Herbaceous-balsamic odor with a faint, fruity undertone, warm and 'Oriental' overall type.
Used in flavor compositions where it may introduce deep-sweet oily-fruity notes in imitation chocolate, cherry, cocoa, currant, liquor, peach, plum, raspberry, strawberry, etc.
It finds use in perfume compositions as a modifier/blender for Labdanum and other Ambre-type materials; it was in fact the 'classical' Ambre-Labdanum chemical until more recently several Labdanum-smelling chemicals were developed.
Produced by direct esterification of iso-Butanol with Cinnamic acid under azeotropic conditions.