A soft, powdery musk with a clean skin-like character and a mild sweetness. Diffuse and rounded rather than sharp, with a subtle almond-nutty facet reminiscent of asparagine derivatives.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 471.
White crystals.
Soluble in water and alcohol, almost insoluble in oils.
Various patents cover the use of Ethyl esters of amino acids as odor-enhancers in perfumery, but there is but little proof yet as to the value of the esters for that purpose.
Produced by selective ethylation of Z-aspartic acid. The acid can be obtained from the natural asparagine, the beta-amide of the acid. It is found in soybeans and other foods, and it can be produced synthetically.