A soft, sweet rosy-floral with a honeyed, slightly fruity character. Geranyl phenylacetate carries the warm geraniol rose facet fused with the mellow, honey-like sweetness typical of phenylacetate esters, drying down waxy and gently balsamic.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 599.
Colorless or pale straw-colored, slightly viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Soft and very sweet, tenacious, mildly floral-honeylike almost herbaceous odor with Geranium-like undertones and variable amounts of animal notes.
Powerful, sweet, mainly honey-like taste with a heavy-fruity note.
This ester is used in perfume compositions of the type where floral notes and honey-notes are compatible, e.g. Hyacinth, Lily, Narcissus, Lilac, Jonquil, etc. and in variations of Oriental fragrance types.
The ester finds some use in flavor compositions such as imitation Apricot, Peach, Honey, and in various fruit complexes.
Produced from Geraniol and Phenylacetyl chloride. The latter is usually prepared from Phenylacetic acid and Thionyl chloride.