A fatty, waxy fruity ester with a soft green-winey character reminiscent of ripe berries, pear skin and a hint of coconut-like creaminess. Diffuses as a rounded, slightly oily fruitiness rather than a sharp fresh-fruit note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 631.
Colorless liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, propylene glycol and oils.
Fresh-green, foliage and vegetable-like odor, reminiscent of the odor of freshly crushed leaves and stems, or the juice from same. Remotely reminiscent of violet leaf greenness.
The subject ester finds a little use in perfumery as a modifier for the conventional materials of 'green' notes. Heptyl caproate supplies a softer, more 'juicy' greenness than most of the other materials, and it is quite versatile. It introduces very pleasant freshness in a Fougére, and has the ability of taking the dullness out of Amyl salicylate or other heavy chemical odors.
The ester could find use in flavor compositions, but it is not specifically listed as G.R.A.S. in the American Federal Register, and cannot be used in the United States as a food flavoring.
Produced by direct esterification of n-Heptanol with caproic acid under azeotropic conditions.