A sweet, soft floral-balsamic material with a distinct heliotrope and cherry-almond character reminiscent of piperonal but rounder and more tenacious. Develops a powdery, slightly creamy vanilla-anisic facet on drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 547.
Colorless or white crystals.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very faint, sweet-herbaceous odor of good tenacity.
Although repeatedly mentioned in perfume literature, the subject ester does not seem to have created any interest among perfumers. Its effect is too weak, its overall odor value insignificant.
Produced from Heliotropine and Malonic ester, using Piperidine catalyst to yield Piperonyl acrylic acid, which is esterified to subject material.