Mild, slightly buttery-fruity ester with a soft creamy-winey character reminiscent of ripe fruit skins and yogurt. Fairly weak on its own, quickly fading to a faint sweet lactonic whisper.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 520.
Colorless liquid, miscible with water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
The aqueous solution decomposes slowly.
Its mild, ethereal-buttery odor may blend well with certain types of fragrance, but is not always desirable.
Mild, fruity-ethereal, buttery taste in aqueous media. The aqueous solutions become increasingly acid during decomposition of the ester.
Occasionally used as a solvent in perfume compositions.
Finds quite extensive use in flavor compositions, e.g. in imitation Butter, Butterscotch, Cheese, Coconut, Grape, Maple, Nut, Rum, Strawberry, etc.