Very faint, soft and slightly fatty-fruity odor with a mild waxy-oily character. Often used more as a diluent or fixative than as an odor contributor; barely perceptible on its own with a subtle sweet-oily whisper.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 465.
Colorless liquid.
Soluble 0.4° in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Pleasant, rather powerful odor of vinous-oily-slightly fruity character.
It has not much of a distinct character, but acts mostly softening, mellowing upon an established flavor composition.
Occasionally used in perfumery as a solvent/fixative.
Has been used in flavor compositions, mainly as a solvent, modifier, blender or fixative.
Produced directly by esterification of ethyl alcohol with adipic acid, preferably under azeotropic conditions.