A soft, green-floral ester with a hyacinth-like character and a fresh, slightly fruity nuance. It has a natural leafy-petal feel, less sharp than phenylacetate esters, adding a diffusive floralcy to green and white-floral accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 707.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Fruity-woody, very sweet and somewhat heavy, but overall pleasant odor.
Fruity and sweet taste, reminiscent of Prune and Plum preserve, heavy but in a pleasant and rather natural way.
The ester finds very little use in perfumery, but it is used in flavor compositions where heavy-fruity notes are desirable, e.g. imitation fruit preserve, Plum, Prune, Blackcurrant, etc.
Produced by direct esterification of Hydratropyl alcohol with iso-Butyric acid under azeotropic conditions.