Ethylene sebacate is a very faint, waxy-fatty material with a soft, slightly musky nuance. In perfumery it functions primarily as a fixative and diluent rather than a character odorant, lending a smooth, subtle waxy backdrop.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 499.
Colorless, viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with perfume oils. Poorly soluble in propylene glycol.
Sweet and very tenacious, musk-like odor with a somewhat oily undertone. Not quite as pleasant and not as strong as Ethylene brassylate.
This cyclic ester has been suggested for use in perfume compositions since its development in the late 1930's.
Produced by esterification of Ethylene glycol with Sebacic acid under azeotropic conditions.