A soft, natural fruity ester with a ripe apple-pear character over a green, slightly waxy background. Rounder and less volatile than the ethyl or methyl butyrates, with a mild floral-honeyed nuance that reads more nuanced than candy-fruity.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 932.
Colorless liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils.
Powerful, sweet-fruity, honey-floral odor of moderate to good tenacity.
Intensely sweet, slightly fruity taste, pleasant only in concentrations below 10 ppm. Honey-like taste appears also below that concentration, while the fruity taste turns strawberry-like at extremely low concentration only.
This comparatively rare ester finds some use in flavor compositions, mainly as a modifier in Strawberry imitation, where it seems to do a better job, although perhaps not with the same power as Methyl cinnamate and Methyl-hydrocinnamate. It is also used in trace amounts in Honey imitations and in various fruit complexes.
Concentrations are usually about 0.5 to 1.5 ppm in the finished product.
Produced by direct esterification of gamma-Phenylbutyric acid, which may be obtained from Benzoyl propionic acid by Clemmensen type reduction.