A fresh, cool-fruity ester with a soft menthol-like character wrapped in a buttery, apple-pear fruitiness. Less biting than menthol itself — the isobutyrate ester rounds it into something smoother and more gourmand, with a light herbal-green facet.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 787.
Colorless oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils. Slightly soluble in propylene glycol, almost insoluble in glycerin.
It has a mild, sweet-herbaceous odor reminiscent of Clary Sage with a rosy undertone and good tenacity.
The taste is sweet, deep-fruity, slightly plum-like.
The author is not aware of any significant use of this ester in perfumes and flavors.
Produced by direct esterification of menthol with iso-Butyric acid preferably under azeotropic conditions.