A light, diffusive fruity ester with a green apple and pineapple-like character, backed by a slightly ethereal, wine-like nuance. Bright and juicy on first sniff, it fades quickly leaving a soft sweet-fruity impression.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 555.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and propylene glycol, miscible with perfume and flavor oils.
Powerful and diffusive, ethereal-fruity, apple-like odor with a remote resemblance to pineapple.
Sweet and somewhat pungent-fruity, apple-like, almost gassy-ethereal taste. In extreme dilution, the taste is merely sweet fruity.
Very rarely used in perfume compositions. The ester is very susceptible to hydrolysis and its odor very sensitive to traces of free acid.
Widely used in flavor compositions, mainly for apple imitations, but also for apricot, peach and in butter and nut complexes. Its power is utilized in the 'Tutti-frutti' type of flavor for chewing gum, and it is occasionally used in tobacco flavoring.
Produced by direct esterification of ethanol with n-valeric acid preferably under azeotropic conditions. It is important that the ester is absolutely dry (free from water).