A soft, waxy-fruity ester with a pear- and apricot-like character wrapped in a creamy, fatty undertone. Develops a subtle floral-green nuance with a slightly oily, coconut-adjacent sweetness on the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 457.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Fruity-winey odor, reminiscent of Ambrette seed oil with a fatty-Pineapple-like and slightly earthy undertone.
Finds some use in perfume compositions, mainly as part of a topnote complex. It blends well with the aliphatic aldehydes, and lends tenacity and a pleasant muskiness to delicately floral notes, it softens citrus notes and offers a natural, petal-like note to many floral fragrances. With the lower aliphatic esters, it can build pleasant winey complexes for other types of topnote bases.
Produced by direct esterification of Dodecanol with Propionic acid under azeotropic conditions, or with Propionic anhydride.