A light, diffusive fruity ester with a bright apple-pear character and a soft green edge. Rounder and slightly more buttery than butyl butyrate, with a fresh ethereal opening that fades quickly.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 227.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in propylene glycol, miscible with alcohol and most oils.
Ethereal-fruity, apple-like, somewhat pungent odor.
Sweet-fruity taste, reminiscent of apple, raspberry, with a winey note.
Occasionally used in flavor compositions, mainly in chocolate flavors and fantasy fruit or tutti-frutti, etc.
Produced by direct esterification of n-butanol with iso-valeric acid under azeotropic conditions.