A sharp, green fruity ester with a distinctly unripe plum and cherry-like character. Opens with a slightly pungent, herbaceous fruitiness reminiscent of green apple skin and stone-fruit stems, fading to a lighter, softer fruity note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 688.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and propylene glycol, miscible with oils.
Strongly diffusive, ethereal-fruity odor, refreshingly green and reminiscent of unripe plums and apples.
Sweet, green-fruity taste in dilutions below 100 ppm. Not very powerful flavor.
Its application in perfumes, if any, is limited to traces in topnote compositions and in reconstructed essential oils (Geranium, Lavender, etc.).
Hexyl formate is used quite widely in fruit flavors for imitation apple, cherry, gooseberry, lemon, orange, pineapple, plum, strawberry, raspberry, etc. and in various fruit complexes, tutti-frutti compositions, etc.
Produced by direct esterification of n-Hexanol with formic acid, e.g. in presence of acetic anhydride, or under azeotropic conditions.