A soft, waxy-fruity ester with a mild green freshness and a gentle sweet apple-pear nuance. Diffuse and creamy rather than sharp, it lends a natural, slightly aldehydic-fatty roundness typical of long-chain isovalerates.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 458.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Oily-fruity, fresh-Apple-like odor with a rather heavy undertone. Overall weak and not very natural.
Has been suggested for use in perfumery as a replacement for the n-Valerate, which is less stable. However, the general opinion is that the n-Valerate is somewhat more natural in character.
Produced by direct esterification of Dodecanol with iso-Valeric acid under azeotropic conditions.