A mild, soft floral-fruity ester with a creamy herbal-lavender nuance derived from its linalool backbone. Rounder and less sharp than linalyl acetate, with a subtle sweet-oily fruitiness reminiscent of pear and a whisper of green lavender.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 770.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Floral, slightly green, Mimosa- and Lily-like odor of good tenacity.
This ester, rarely offered commercially, finds a little use in perfume compositions, mostly in delicate floral types such as Lily, Muguet, Lilac, Mimosa, Freesia, etc.
Produced from Dehydrolinalool and n-Heptanoic acid by esterification, followed by hydrogenation of the ester. It can also be prepared by direct esterification of Linalool with n-Heptanoic acid under azeotropic conditions.