A soft rosy-geranium character wrapped in a sweet, slightly fermented fruity note reminiscent of ripe apple and pear skin. The isovalerate ester lends a gentle herbaceous, almost cheesy-fruity nuance beneath a clean geraniol-like floral top.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 602.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Fruity, apple-like, somewhat rosy odor with distinctly herbaceous-sweet undertones, also reminiscent of overripe fruit.
Powerful, fruity-rosy, but not quite sweet taste. Herbaceous aftertaste.
It finds use in perfumes as a modifier for lower aliphatic esters of Geraniol, and in Oriental fragrance types where it blends excellently with Opopanax, Patchouli and Phenylacetates, etc.
In flavors, the ester finds use as a modifier for apple imitations, pineapple, lime, peach, and in a number of berry formulations. It is also used in tobacco flavorings.
Produced by direct esterification of Geraniol with iso-Valeric acid under azeotropic conditions.