A wintergreen-like methyl salicylate character with an added methyl group giving a slightly heavier, sweeter, and more tenacious profile. Sharp minty-medicinal opening softens into a warm balsamic sweetness reminiscent of root beer and birch. Less piercing than methyl salicylate itself, with a rounder herbal-anisic facet.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 909.
Colorless liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet, mild, herbaceous-spicy odor, weaker than Methylsalicylate, more floral.
Spicy-wintergreen-like taste, more floral-woody than Methylsalicylate.
This phenolester finds a little use in perfume compositions, partly in mild or sweet leather-like notes, or in spicy floral fragrances of Tuberose-Cassie type.
Produced by condensation of Acetoacetaldehyde with Ethylacetoacetate, followed by Methyl-esterification.