A soft, sweet floral-balsamic material reminiscent of heliotropin but smoother and less powdery. Evokes cherry blossom, almond, and vanilla-tinged florals with a mild balsamic warmth. Diffuses gently with a rounded, slightly creamy character used to lift and sweeten floral-oriental accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 217.
Colorless liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild, balsamic-sweet and very tenacious odor, faintly floral, and warm.
This ester finds limited use in perfume compositions, in which it can introduce very pleasant and fashionable 'powdery' notes, supported by Anisylacetate, Cinnamylesters, Tolubalsam, high-grade Methylionones, Ambregris materials, etc.
Produced from Heliotropine via Piperonylic acid (by oxidation) followed by direct esterification under azeotropic conditions with iso-Butyl alcohol.