A soft, sweet floral-honey aroma with a rosy, slightly phenolic character reminiscent of geranium and beeswax. Warm and rounded, with a mildly balsamic undertone that gives body to floral accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 542.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet, somewhat honeylike, also floral odor of good tenacity. The honey-notes are less pronounced in this ester than in the conventional Ethyl phenylacetate, but the floral notes are more perceptible and tend to point in the Hyacinth direction.
Warm, sweet, honeylike taste.
This ester has been suggested for use in perfume compositions as a modifier for Ethyl phenylacetate, which is somewhat sharper and more pungent. The phenoxyacetate, however, has not found much interest for such purpose.
The ester is occasionally used in flavor compositions, mainly imitation Honey, where it can help tone down the rather pungent notes of the conventional Methyl- and Ethyl phenylacetates.
Produced by direct esterification of Ethanol with Phenoxyacetic acid using azeotropic conditions. The acid can be obtained from Phenol plus Monochloroacetic acid in aqueous alkaline solution.