A soft, natural-smelling floral-green material with a honeyed, slightly fruity nuance reminiscent of neroli petals and orange blossom nectar. It brings a fresh, dewy transparency to floral accords with a subtle waxy-honey facet in the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 928.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful green-floral, heavy and sweet odor of considerable tenacity.
This ester finds limited use in perfume compositions as a modifier in Muguet, Gardenia, Tuberose, Hyacinth and other floral and floral-green bases. It blends well with the floral-green carbinols (in Muguet) and with Cinnamic derivatives (in Hyacinth) or the Methylphenylcarbinyl esters in Gardenia.
Prod.: by azeotropic type esterification of Methyl pentenol with Phenylacetic acid.