A soft, honeyed floral ester with a rosy-lavender character. Linalyl phenylacetate has the smoothness of linalyl esters combined with the warm, honey-rose facet of phenylacetates, giving a gently sweet, slightly balsamic floral tone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Colorless or pale straw-colored viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mildly floral, intensely sweet Neroli-Rose type odor of great tenacity and with variable amounts of Honey-like undertones, according to origin of sample or method of production.
Finds some use in perfume compositions for heavy floral types, exotic florals such as Frangipanni or Passionflower. It may form part of a fixative base for the more volatile “rose alcohols”’ and lighter esters in a composition, and, in turn, its own Rose-honey fragrance is brought up to life by action of the volatile components.
1) from Dehydrolinalool and Phenylacetic acid, followed by hydrogenation of the ester. 2) from Linalool sodium plus Phenylacetyl chloride.