Nearly odorless waxy-fatty ester with only a faint oily-soapy nuance. Used primarily as an emollient fixative and diluent rather than for its own scent, it lends a smooth, creamy substantivity to compositions.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 643.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very mild oily odor, reminiscent of freshly refined cod liver oil (no fishy notes!) or good grade linseed oil.
The ester could possibly find some use in the reconstruction of certain flower absolutes, but overall it appears to have only academic interest.
Produced from n-Heptanol by esterification with palmitic acid under azeotropic conditions.