A sweet, ethereal ester with a caramellic, slightly fruity character reminiscent of ethyl acetate crossed with a light caramel note. Fairly volatile and short-lived, it lends a soft sugary lift in the topnotes but has little tenacity on a blotter.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 374.
Colorless liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water (decomposition of the ester), miscible with alcohol and oils.
Weak, somewhat musky odor, slightly herbaceous and mushroom-like.
Very mild taste, in higher concentration somewhat earthy-musty, and slightly burning
Has been used occasionally as a solvent for perfume materials.
Produced from Oxalic acid and Ethyl alcohol by azeotropic esterification.