Octyl Benzoate is a very mild, nearly odorless fixative solvent with a faint balsamic-floral, slightly waxy character. It's used mostly as a diluent and carrier — the small odor it does have is soft, clean, and unobtrusive, lending a subtle smoothness to floral and balsamic blends.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1048.
Colorless or very pale straw-colored, slightly viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Rather weak, balsamic-oily odor of considerable tenacity.
The ester has been recommended for use in imitation Banana flavor, and it does, to some extent, supply the dull-juiceless, mildly oily taste or mouthfeel, which is typical of part of the Banana flavor picture.
Apart from occasional use as a fixative (of very low odor value), this ester may only find very infrequent use in Chypre, Fougére, Wood or Oriental fragrance types.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of z-Octanol with Benzoic acid.