A fatty, waxy fruity ester with a soft green-oily character reminiscent of unripe pear skin and a faint rose-petal nuance. Diffuse and slightly creamy, it lends a natural fruit-peel realism rather than a sugary jamminess.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1029.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Winey-ethereal, mildly fruity and nut-like odor of moderate tenacity.
Sweet, fruity-nut-like taste at concentrations below 20 ppm. The fruit notes are mostly apple-like, while the nut-notes are coconut-type.
This ester may have some use in perfumery, but the author is not aware of its use as a perfume material.
It has found some use in flavor compositions in countries other than the USA (where it is not listed as G.R.A.S.) for imitation apple, orange or nut, usually in concentrations equal to 2 to 15 ppm in the finished product.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of n-Nonanol with hexanoic acid.