A soft, waxy floral-musky material with a clean, slightly powdery character reminiscent of orange blossom and neroli petals. Quiet and diffusive rather than loud, it lends a smooth, skin-like fixative quality to floral and cologne accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1027.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Peculiar, warm-herbaceous, sweet-fruity odor complex of considerable tenacity.
This ester, although rarely found in price lists, is occasionally used in perfume compositions, mainly of the 'Oriental' and sweet-balsamic type with Ylang-Ylang, Opopanax, Myrrh, etc.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of n-Nonanol with Benzoic acid.