A soft, sweet floral-fruity ester with a lavender-like herbaceous character and a green, slightly waxy pear-apple facet. Rounder, sweeter and less sharp than linalyl acetate, drying down to a mellow floral-woody note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 768.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Peculiar dry-fruity and somewhat animal odor. The term 'metallic' is sometimes included in the odor description of this ester, and not infrequently met with in description of Hexyl esters and hexoates. However, the author finds that the true odor of Linalyl hexoate is primarily fruity, and that the 'metallic' note - if present at all - could be due to trace impurities. The fact that the 'metallic' note always disappears upon dilution tempts one to conclude so.
The flavor is mainly Pineapple-like, also Pear-like, and overall somewhat dry and reminiscent of the odor of canned fruits (pasteurized and devoid of fresh natural top-notes).
The ester is used occasionally in Lavender bases or as part of various fruity topnote compositions.
As a flavor material, its use is somewhat restricted to Pineapple imitations and variations of 'Tutti-frutti' complexes.
Produced by esterification of Dehydrolinalool with n-Hexanoic acid, followed by hydrogenation of the Dehydro-ester.