Dihexyl fumarate is a nearly odorless to very faintly waxy-fatty ester used primarily as a fixative and diluent in fragrance compositions. It has little intrinsic character, mainly contributing a soft, oily backdrop that helps extend more volatile top notes.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 377.
Colorless liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
It has a warm, herbaceous-winey, slightly green and quite tenacious odor of versatile use in perfumery.
This ester has found use in perfumery for its effect which resembles that of the Tiglic and Angelic esters of Amyl- and Hexyl alcohols.
Produced by direct esterification of n-Hexanol with Fumaric acid under azeotropic conditions.