Ethyl oleate is essentially odorless — a light, oily liquid with at most a faint fatty-waxy nuance. It is used in perfumery as a solvent/diluent and fixative carrier rather than for its own scent contribution.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 538.
Pale yellowish oily liquid, insoluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Insoluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
When absolutely pure, it has very little odor, only a mild, sweet oily and warm — actually delicate fragrance.
The ester finds some use in Butter and fruit flavors, partly as a fixative, partly as an active flavor ingredient (mouthfeel, in Butter flavors), and it protects a flavor composition against the damaging treatment of oven-baking.
This ester may find a little use in perfumery as a solvent/modifier or a constituent of certain artificial flower absolutes.
The ester is therefore used in many flavor types for baked goods.
Produced by direct esterification of Ethanol with Oleic acid, using azeotropic conditions.