Hercolyn (methyl ester of hydrogenated rosin) has a very faint, soft balsamic-woody odor with a slightly sweet resinous undertone. It's used primarily as a fixative and diluent rather than for its own smell, contributing subtle body and persistence to compositions.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 648.
Very viscous, but pourable pale straw-colored or very pale amber-colored liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Regular Hercolyn has a faint, woody-piney odor of considerable tenacity. Hercolyn D is almost odorless when freshly prepared and properly stored, but it will easily take odors from other chemicals if exposed to their vapors.
It finds application as a blender-fixative in many types of low-cost fragrance, particularly those designed for household products and for industrial purposes. It is particularly suitable for pine odors, but it can be used in modest amounts in most non-floral and a few floral fragrance types.
Produced by methyl-esterification of the hydrogenated acids from American Turpentine rosin.