A soft rosy-floral material with a fresh, slightly citrus-green facet reminiscent of citronellol but rounder and less sharp. The oxalate ester lends a smoother, waxy character and better tenacity than free citronellol, giving a clean geranium-rose nuance.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 288.
Colorless oily liquid.
Very faint floral-rosy odor.
Has been suggested for use in perfumery as a fixative.
Produced by direct esterification of Citronellol with Oxalic acid, using a catalyst (e.g. Toluene sulfonic acid).