An extremely volatile, ethereal top-note ester with a sharp, slightly fruity-solvent character reminiscent of rum, ether, and green apple peel. Flashes off almost immediately, leaving little trace.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 869.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Soluble in water, miscible with alcohol, propylene glycol, glycerin and oils.
Very ethereal-diffusive odor of winey chloroform-type.
Although this material is very rarely used as such in flavors, and probably never in perfumes, it will be briefly mentioned here because of its use as a 'gas' in fumigating edible dried fruits (apricots, prunes, pears, etc.) and cereal.
The ester is occasionally used in place of chloroform to produce a 'flavor-burst' or 'warm bite' in dentifrice flavors or flavors for compressed cough lozenges. In imitation rum flavors it may find some use as a warm-ethereal topnote, and in raspberry flavor it can introduce a similar and quite interesting effect.
Produced by direct esterification of methanol with formic acid.