A soft, tenacious salicylate with a creamy floral-balsamic character reminiscent of ylang and orchid, with a mild sweet-woody undertone. Less sunscreen-like than benzyl salicylate, more rounded and slightly heavier, functioning as a quiet floralizer and fixative in the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 645.
Colorless oily liquid
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils
Very faint, sweet-herbaceous odor
Suggested for use in perfume compositions as a modifier in Fougéres and other fragrance types
From n-Heptanol and Salicylic acid by direct esterification under azeotropic conditions