A rich, creamy salicylate with a soft floral-balsamic character reminiscent of gardenia, tuberose, and ylang petals. Sweet and slightly powdery, with the typical warm sunscreen-like salicylate facet, but rounder and more floral than benzyl or methyl salicylate. Adds a smooth, sun-warmed floral body to white-floral and oriental accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 938.
Colorless or white crystals.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Practically odorless when pure, very faint, sweet odor of great tenacity.
It is used to a minor degree in flavor compositions, in imitation Pineapple, Apricot, Peach, and Honey, normally in traces or little more than traces.
This ester finds limited use in perfume compositions as a fixative and blender in mild floral fragrance types, balsamic or Oriental bases, Lilac, Sweet Pea, Tuberose, Rose, Hyacinth, and in certain sweet-herbaceous, meadow-like fragrance types.
Produced by azeotropic type esterification of Methyl phenyl carbinol with Salicylic acid.