A soft, natural-smelling ester bridging leafy green freshness with a honeyed floral warmth. The opening reads like crushed green leaves and stems, then settles into a mellow honey-jasmine facet with a hint of ripe fruit. Rounder and warmer than cis-3-hexenyl acetate, less sharp and more nectar-like.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 671.
Colorless, slightly viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild and sweet, green-rosy-mossy odor with undertones of herbaceous-woody, somewhat condiment-vegetable-like character.
Recommended for Mint flavor compositions, this ester has probably very limited application.
Some observers report that they find onion-like or spicy notes in the odor of this ester.
As a trace component in certain flavor compositions, this ester might well find some use.
Produced from phenylacetyl chloride and cis-3-hexenol with pyridine catalyst in an inert diluent.