A soft, oily-floral ester with a mild orange-peel and gardenia-like facet. Smells fatty-waxy and slightly sweet, with a clean, rounded fruitiness that sits between citrus and white floral.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 350.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet fatty-fruity odor of Pineapple-Orange-like character, and rosy waxy undertones.
Finds some use in flavor compositions, mainly for imitation Apple, Berry, Honey, Orange, Peach, Plum, etc. and also in Rum flavors.
Finds a little use in perfume compositions as a modifier for Linalyl acetate, and generally as a fresh note in delicate florals (Muguet, etc.) or in aldehydic topnote compositions. It blends excellently with Dodecanal (Aldehyde C-12, Lauric).
Produced by direct esterification of n-Decanol with Acetic acid under azeotropic conditions or with Acetic anhydride.