A very faint, fatty-waxy ester with a soft oily character reminiscent of coconut fat or waxy soap. Almost odorless in isolation and used primarily as an emollient/solvent or fixative carrier rather than an odor contributor.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 691.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils.
Very mild oily odor. In the author's opinion, of very little interest to the perfumer.
This ester may find use in a few types of floral fragrance or artificial flower absolutes, e.g. Tuberose and similar types, where it can assist in producing oily-waxy 'petal'-like notes in the floral picture.
Produced by direct esterification of n-Hexanol with Lauric (Dodecanoic) acid under azeotropic conditions.