Decyl pelargonate is essentially odorless — a light, waxy emollient ester used primarily as a diluent, fixative, or solvent carrier in perfumery rather than for its own scent. Any perceptible character is a very faint fatty-oily nuance.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 355.
Colorless oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils, poorly soluble in propylene glycol and mineral oil.
Orange-like, oily-fruity, also floral and winey, grape-like odor of good tenacity.
Could find use in flavor compositions for imitation bitter orange, and in citrus fruit blends.
Occasionally used in perfume compositions to emphasize grapefruit notes, bitter orange, etc. Also interesting as a modifier in ambre notes.
Produced by direct esterification of decanoic acid with nonanoic acid.