Linalyl pelargonate (linalyl nonanoate) is a soft, mildly floral ester with a waxy-fatty character and a subtle fruity-rosy nuance from the linalyl portion. It smells cleaner and more diffusive than linalyl acetate, with a quiet oily-green facet that lends smoothness to floral and citrus accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 771.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild oily-waxy, delicately floral Rose-Lily type odor of good tenacity.
This ester has been suggested for use in perfume compositions for floral, Oriental and various fantasy fragrance types. It blends well with the Ionones and Methylionones as well as with the rose alcohols.
Produced from Dehydrolinalool by esterification with Nonoic acid followed by hydrogenation of the ester, or by azeotropic esterification of Linalool with Nonoic acid.