A soft, mildly sweet salicylate with a warm woody-balsamic character and a faint powdery-floral facet. Less bright than methyl salicylate and less coconutty than benzyl salicylate — quieter, waxy, and diffusive with a gentle sunscreen-like nuance.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 700.
Colorless viscous liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Faint metallic or ink-like odor, presumably due to traces of free phenol, other than the subject material.
When perfuming products containing this ester, due consideration should be paid to the fact that it is a high-boiling component and that its odor will mainly appear in the terminal notes of the fragrance which may be added to the cosmetic product.
Produced by esterification (several methods) of meta-Cresotinic acid with Menthol (or an ester of Menthol).