Cyclohexyl valerate is a fruity ester with a green, slightly waxy character reminiscent of unripe apple and pear peel. It has a fresh, natural-fruit quality with subtle floral facets, less sweet and more crisp than typical fruity esters.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 333.
Colorless, slightly oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils, poorly soluble in propylene glycol.
Fruity, slightly animal, deep-herbaceous odor.
Fruity, berry-like taste.
Finds some use in perfume compositions in floral-fruity fragrance types. Blends well with Ionones, Cyclamal, Geranyl esters, etc. and has a fair tenacity. Comparatively stable in soap.
Could find use in flavor compositions for certain type of imitation berry, such as blackcurrant, which is very difficult to reproduce artificially.
Produced by direct esterification of cyclohexanol with n-valeric acid.