A soft, sweet-minty salicylate with a gentle cooling herbal facet reminiscent of wintergreen crossed with menthol. Less pungent than methyl salicylate — rounder, creamier, with a faint balsamic warmth underneath.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 789.
Colorless oily liquid, or pale straw-colored oily, slightly viscous liquid.
Almost odorless when pure.
Slightly bitter-astringent taste.
This ester has found some use as a sunscreening agent, but has largely been substituted by Homomenthyl salicylate.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of Menthol with Salicylic acid, using a Benzene- or Toluene sulfonic acid catalyst.