A fruity, slightly waxy ester with a fresh, winey character reminiscent of wine, pear and coconut. Softly green and clean, with a subtle fatty-oily undertone typical of medium-chain methyl esters.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 914.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Fruity-winey, refreshingly nut-coconut-like odor of moderate tenacity.
Sweet-oily, fruity coconut-like taste in dilutions below 10 ppm. Higher concentrations show an overpowering oily-fatty note.
This ester finds limited use in perfume compositions as part of topnotes in floral and fruity fragrance complexes. It blends well with the citrus notes, with neroli and orange-blossom, with oakmoss and galbanum, but its power is easily underestimated.
It is more widely used in flavors, particularly in imitation nut, coconut, orange, pineapple, honey, cognac, apple, various fruit complexes, citrus blends and berry flavors.
Produced by direct esterification of methanol with nonoic acid preferably using azeotropic conditions.