A soft, sweet floral-honey aroma with a rosy, slightly waxy character and a mild fruity nuance. Warmer and more tenacious than benzyl or methyl phenylacetate, it lends a natural honeyed sweetness to floral and gourmand accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 693.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet-green, fruity-winey odor, overall rather weak, but tenacious and with undertones that may vary from rosy to musky, according to origin of sample.
This ester is occasionally used in perfume compositions, where sweet-green notes are called for, e.g. Acacia, Mimosa, Reseda, Violet (leaf), etc.
Produced by direct esterification of n-Hexanol with Phenylacetic acid under azeotropic conditions.