A soft, waxy-fruity ester with a creamy, slightly green character reminiscent of ripe pear skin and coconut pulp over a mild fatty-aldehydic base. Diffuse and rounded rather than sharp, with a quiet lactonic sweetness that lingers into the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 457.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Oily-fruity, faintly floral odor with some resemblance to that of unripe apples, but with an almost nauseatingly sweet-oily note.
This chemical can find use in topnote compositions as part of the fixative section. It blends well with Cognac oil, aliphatic aldehydes, terpeneless citrus oils, Undecalactone, etc.
Produced by direct esterification of Dodecanol with n-Valeric acid under azeotropic conditions.