A green-fruity ester with a juicy pear and unripe tropical fruit character, lifted by a fresh leafy-green facet. Slightly waxy and diffusive, with a natural just-picked fruit impression that fades fairly quickly.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 651.
Colorless or very pale straw-colored liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Oily-sweet, fruity-green, Apple- and Galbanum-like odor with more sweetness and fruitiness than Galbanum, and overall more fruity than green notes.
The taste is sweet, green-fruity, mainly Apple-like.
This ester, not often offered commercially, is surprisingly stable and its natural odor can be very useful in many perfume compositions.
Hexadienyl-iso-butyrate is also used in flavor compositions (outside of the U.S.A., since it is not listed as a G.R.A.S. material). It produces very pleasant effects in Apricot, Apple, Mango and Peach imitation flavors.
Produced by direct esterification of Hexadienoic acid with iso-Butyric acid under azeotropic conditions.