A soft, slightly cooling minty-balsamic note with a mild sweetness reminiscent of wintergreen crossed with a light benzoate. Less sharp than menthol itself — rounded, faintly medicinal, with a clean herbal-fresh undertone that persists quietly.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 787.
Colorless viscous oil.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very weak, slightly herbaceous-sweet odor of considerable tenacity.
This ester has found some use as a sunscreening agent. To the author’s knowledge, it is not used as a fragrance material in perfumes (or flavors).
Produced by azeotropic esterification of Menthol with Benzoic acid.