A green, fresh-fatty odor reminiscent of unripe fruit peel and cut mushroom, with an oily-waxy undertone. The formate ester lends a slightly sharp, herbal-green lift on top before settling into a rounder aliphatic fruitiness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 882.
Colorless liquid
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, propylene glycol and oils
Warm-herbaceous, slightly green-spicy and fruity-rosy, sweet odor, remotely resembling notes of Opopanax
This ester finds a little use in perfume compositions as part of 'Oriental' fragrance complexes or as a trace component in variations of Chypre, etc. It blends very well with Labdanum and Rose notes, and gives interesting effect in Lavender or Clary Sage.
It is also used in flavor compositions for fruit bouquets.
Produced from d-Octanol-2 with anhydrous formic acid and Zinc chloride.