A bright, juicy fruity-green aromachemical with a crisp apple-pear character and a subtle grassy nuance. Reminiscent of fresh-cut fruit skin with a light acetate sparkle on top. Fades relatively quickly, leaving a soft green-fruity impression.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 493.
Colorless or pale straw-colored oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils.
Fruity-floral and warm, sweet odor of good tenacity. The winey, fermented fruit-like undertones resemble the odor of strawberry preserve.
This ketal type of chemical has found some use in perfume compositions where a certain deep-fruity note is desirable along with a floral complex. Jasmin, Tuberose, Gardenia and many other floral bases, spicy fragrances, etc. can achieve new and interesting lifts from this material.
Produced from propylene glycol and ethyl acetoacetate. The latter acts as a ketone to condense with the glycol. The condensation is normally encouraged by a catalyst and carried out under conditions of azeotropic distillation.