Diethyl sebacate is a virtually odorless emollient ester used primarily as a diluent, solvent, and fixative in fragrance and cosmetics. On a blotter it presents as almost imperceptible, with at most a very faint oily-waxy nuance.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 374.
Colorless oily liquid.
Soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Faint, but pleasant, winey-fruity odor, resembling that of Quince and Melon.
Occasionally used in perfume compositions as a solvent-diluent.
Used in flavor compositions for imitation Apple, Butter, Coconut, Melon, Nut, Peach, Pear, Cherry, Gooseberry, Quince and in many combination flavors.
Produced by direct esterification of Sebacic acid with Ethyl alcohol, e. g. under azeotropic conditions.