A soft, floral-balsamic salicylate with a sweet, slightly herbaceous character reminiscent of ylang and orchid petals. Less sharp than benzyl salicylate, with a mellow lily-of-the-valley and clover facet, and a faint powdery drydown. Functions as a smooth floralizer and mild fixative.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 773.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very mild odor, in fact it appears odorless to many observers. Musky-sweet, faintly floral or fruity odor of good tenacity.
The ester is nevertheless interesting as a fixative in mild or delicate floral fragrances such as Muguet or Lily, and blends very well with Lavender in Fougére types as a part of the fixative base.
1) from Dehydrolinalool by esterification with Salicylic acid, followed by hydrogenation of the ester. 2) from Linalool and Salicylic acid by azeotropic esterification. 3) from Linalool and Trichloro-ortho-hydroxyacetophenone.