A soft, sweet floral-fruity aroma chemical reminiscent of white flowers and ripe fruit, with a warm balsamic-honeyed undertone. Similar in character to hexyl cinnamic aldehyde but with a more benzoate-like creamy nuance, adding roundness and diffusion to floral accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 679.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet and warm-balsamic, herbaceous odor of good tenacity.
This ester finds use in perfume compositions as a supporting note for Labdanum and other sweet-Ambre materials.
1) from Ethyl benzoate and Hexylacetate (or Hexyl acetoacetate) using Sodium ethoxide as condensing agent. 2) from Hexyl carbonate and Acetophenone.