A soft floral-fruity ester with a jasmine-gardenia character and a sweet, slightly balsamic undertone. Rounder and more tenacious than benzyl acetate, with a creamy, slightly powdery drydown reminiscent of ylang and tropical white flowers.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 818.
Colorless liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful fruity and intensely sweet odor of moderate to poor tenacity. The fruity notes resemble Cherry - milder and sweeter, less pungent than Benzyl acetate, also less floral.
Sweet fruity taste reminiscent of Banana and Cherry.
It finds application in imitation Cherry, Pear, Banana and other fruits, in “Tutti-frutti” and other fruit complexes, etc.
Produced from rneta-Tolylchloride (which contains some para-isomer) with aqueous alkali under reflux, followed by esterification of the alcohol.