Butyl ricinoleate is a fatty ester used primarily as an emollient and fixative rather than for its own scent. It has a very faint, mild oily-waxy odor with a trace of sweetness, essentially near-odorless in use.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 221.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very faint oily odor, strongly dependent upon purity of chemical.
Suggested for use in perfume formulation to lend oily petal-like notes to certain floral bases.
Produced from a-Butanol and Ricinoleic acid by heat.