A fresh, fruity-green ester with a distinctly ripe pear and melon character, backed by a mushroom-like earthiness. Has a subtle floral facet reminiscent of osmanthus or gardenia, and a mildly waxy, oily undertone as it dries down.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1026.
Colorless liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, propylene glycol and oils.
Fruity, but also heavy-herbaceous, incense-like odor with mildly green-earthy, Reseda-like notes.
This ester of an alcohol which occurs in volatile oil of Coconut finds a little use in perfumery for its peculiar Olibanum-Opopanax-Mignonette-type odor, blending well into modern fruity-green topnotes, e.g. the commonly used Galbanum-plus-fruit-plus aldehyde theme.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of n-secondary-Nonanol with acetic acid.