A soft, mildly sweet floral-balsamic ester with a waxy, slightly powdery character. Quiet and diffusive, it lends a smooth, rounded backdrop reminiscent of ylang and heliotrope facets, with a faint musky-fatty undertone. Often used as a mild fixative and blender.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 628.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild woody-green almost weedy or sage-like odor of good tenacity. The odor type is rather unnatural, not exactly pleasant (like damp wood) and often further spoiled by trace impurities of metallic odor.
This ester has been recommended for use in non-floral perfume compositions such as Chypre and Fougére, but it does not seem to contribute much to fragrances at all.
Produced by direct esterification of n-Heptanol with Benzoic acid under azeotropic conditions.