Soft, fresh floral-fruity note with a sweet bergamot-lavender character. Smooth and slightly pear-like, it lends a clean, refined roundness reminiscent of the top of bergamot oil and the heart of lavender.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Other ingredients whose composition declares this material as a constituent. The percentage shown is the supplier-declared concentration in that parent.
| Ingredient | % | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Bergamot Oil | — | 20–50% |
| Lavender Oil | — | 20–50% |
| Passion Fruit Base 109223 | — | 20–30% |
| Poivre Fort | — | 5–10% |
| RAINFOREST | — | 5–10% |
| RAINFOREST FRAGRANCE | — | 5–10% |
| FIR NEEDLE | — | 0.1–1% |
| Gardenia | — | 0.1–1% |
| Prunol SP | — | 0.1–1% |
Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 765.
Colorless liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol, propylene glycol and oils. Insoluble in glycerin.
Sweet, floral-fruity odor recalling Bergamot and Pear.
The taste is sweet, fruity, Pear-like with a faintly floral note.
This ester is very widely used in perfume compositions as a fresh and sweet modifier/blender, as an additive to compositions rich in Bergamot, Lavender, Lavandin, Petitgrain, etc. and in fruity topnote complexes.
It finds some use in flavor compositions for Berry complexes, Citrus flavors, Pineapple, Gooseberry, Peach or Pear imitations, Ginger spice blends, etc.
Produced from Linalool by esterification, using various methods for protection of the tertiary alcohol in the acid mixture. Newer methods are based upon esterification of Dehydrolinalool followed by hydrogenation of Dehydrolinalyl acetate, thus avoiding above problem.