A sweet, ripe fruity ester with a strong apple-pear character and a subtle green, slightly winey nuance. Sits between a juicy orchard-fruit note and a soft tropical impression, with a mild aromatic-floral undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 544.
Colorless, slightly oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet, fruity, plum-like odor of good tenacity.
Deep-sweet, fruit-jam-like taste, reminiscent of cooked plums or prunes.
This ester is probably used in flavors only. It imparts at very low concentration a certain amount of 'natural' body and richness to many berry and other fruit flavors.
Produced by direct esterification of ethanol with gamma-phenylbutyric acid. The acid is obtained from phenylbutyrolactone by reduction or from gamma-bromopropylbenzene by Grignard reaction.