A soft, tenacious rosy-floral with a balsamic salicylate warmth. Geranium-like green top facet gives way to a sweet, slightly powdery rose-orchid heart with a mild sunscreen-like salicylate undertone. Acts as a gentle fixative and rounds off floral compositions.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 601.
Colorless viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Virtually odorless when pure, but the ester does contribute sweet, rosy-balsamic notes to a composition when lower boiling materials are present.
It finds a little use as a fixative, or a so-called fixative in the common definition of at least four types of fixatives.
Produced from Geranyl chloride plus Sodium salicylate.