A soft, tenacious balsamic-floral material with a honeyed, slightly waxy rose-geranium character. Very low volatility — sits quietly on the blotter as a sweet, resinous fixative with a subtle cinnamic warmth rather than a sharp spicy bite.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 594.
Viscous, pale straw-colored or almost colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with most oils.
Mild and sweet Ambre-Rose type odor with soft, balsamic undertones. There is a noticeable difference between samples from one or the other supplier, particularly if different methods of production have been applied.
Balsamic-rosy, but not quite sweet taste. Pleasant at about 1 ppm but is too weak at that concentration for practical effects.
This rare ester finds occasionally use in mild floral fragrances or heavy and sweet Oriental or balsamic type bases. It has some of the Ambre notes of a good grade Asiatic Styrax, and it blends very well with Labdanum derivatives to emphasize such notes. It is also an interesting modifier for Oakmoss in cases where a Coumarinic companion note is undesirable, or a spicy moss not wanted. It maintains the lasting effect of the Oakmoss but keeps it continuously soft and sweet instead of dry or woody.
Produced from Cinnamyl chloride plus Geraniol with a catalyst.