Sharp, sweet wintergreen character — instantly recognisable as root beer, wintergreen candy, or analgesic rub. Has a cooling, medicinal facet with a slightly minty-camphoraceous edge and a rounded balsamic-sweet undertone that lingers.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 963.
Colorless oily liquid.
0.07% soluble in water, soluble in propylene glycol, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Warm, sweet, rooty-fruity odor of moderate to poor tenacity.
Pungent-sweet, fruity-rooty odor with burning sensation at high concentration.
Methy] salicylate is used in perfume compositions as a minor ingredient in many types of heavy exotic floral fragrance, e.g. Tuberose, Cassie, etc. and in artificial Ylang-Ylang.
The title ester is widely used in flavor compositions, and often forms the chief ingredient, if not the only flavor ingredient, in certain types of consumer product.
Produced by direct esterification of salicylic acid, using a large surplus of methanol to reduce the temperature and thus avoid phenolic decomposition of the sensitive acid.