A light, fruity ester with a green-apple and slightly pineapple-like character over a mild, sweet-herbaceous background. Reminiscent of ripe orchard fruit with a soft aromatic lift, less sharp than shorter-chain valerates.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 697.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Somewhat pungent-fruity, unripe-fruity, slightly herbaceous, but rich and natural odor with a dry tobacco-leaf-like undertone.
Sweet-green, heavy fruity, slightly herbaceous taste in dilutions lower than 20 ppm.
This ester is used in perfume compositions, normally in traces only, to add heavy-fruity or tobacco-like herbaceous effects to Oriental fragrance types, Fougéres, Chypres, etc., and to give - in minute traces - interesting top-notes upon delicate floral bases such as Muguet or Lilac, in higher amounts in Hyacinth. The musky-tobacco-like effect is useful along with Opopanax or Phenylacetates in Oriental types.
Traces are used in flavor compositions to round-off heavy fruity complexes, or in tobacco flavors, etc.
Produced by direct esterification of n-Hexanol with iso-Valeric acid under azeotropic conditions.