A soft green-fruity ester with a leafy, cut-grass character and a ripe pear-like fruitiness. Less sharp than cis-3-hexenyl acetate, with a smoother, waxier body and gentle tropical undertones that linger into the early heart.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 668.
Colorless liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, propylene glycol and oils.
Powerful fruity-green, diffusive odor, more fruity, less green than the acetate or the butyrate. It is also somewhat sharper than the trans-2-Hexenyl caproate.
This ester has been suggested for use in perfumes and flavors. The author believes that it will primarily find application in flavors, where its pear-pineapple character and comparatively powerful aroma could blend with the conventional materials in such flavor compositions.
Produced by esterification of cis-3-Hexenol with n-Hexanoic acid under azeotropic conditions.