A fresh green ester with a fruity, slightly tropical twist — the sharp leafy character of cis-3-hexenol softened by a buttery, pineapple-like isobutyrate facet. Smells like crushed green leaves over ripe unripe fruit, cleaner and rounder than the parent alcohol.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 667.
Colorless liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and propylene glycol, miscible with oils.
Fruity-winey, sweet-green odor of considerable power and diffusion.
Powerful and sweet, apple-like taste.
It could find use as a modifier for the Hexenyl esters with lower acids, and it will blend particularly well with fruity notes of the apple-peach-apricot type. It lends freshness to lavender and other herbaceous fragrances, and gives lift to many types of floral fragrance.
Produced by esterification of cis-3-Hexenol with iso-Butyric acid under azeotropic conditions.