A juicy green-fruity ester with a distinctive pear-skin and unripe apple character, edged with a waxy, slightly fatty green nuance. Diffusive and natural-smelling, it bridges fresh fruit and leafy greenness rather than sitting in a candy-sweet register.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 853.
Colorless liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Fruity, foliage-green odor of excellent diffusion and moderate tenacity.
This ester has found some use in perfume compositions as part of topnote compositions with Citrus oils, Rose, Tuberose, aliphatic aldehydes, etc. It gives interesting effects with the Hexenols and their esters, and it performs particularly well with Bitter Orange oil.
The ester has been suggested for use in flavor compositions, mainly in Citrus fruit and Melon flavors, or in minute traces in Strawberry.
Produced by direct esterification of 2-Decenoic acid with Methanol, preferably using azeotropic conditions.