A soft, sweet floral-rosy aroma with a subtle honeyed facet and a faint cool minty nuance from the menthyl portion. The phenylacetate character brings a warm, slightly balsamic honey-jasmine tone that stays creamy rather than sharp.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 788.
Colorless, slightly viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with most oils. Poorly soluble in propylene glycol, almost insoluble in glycerin.
This ester has mild-floral and extremely sweet and tenacious notes.
It has found occasional use in perfume compositions, e.g. in Frangipanni, Honeysuckle, Oriental fragrance types.
Its use in flavors is equally unconventional.
Produced from menthol and phenylacetic acid by azeotropic esterification.