A light, diffusive fruity-green ester with a slightly oily-waxy quality. Opens with a soft pear- and apple-like fruitiness backed by a mild herbaceous facet, fading fairly quickly to a clean, slightly fatty note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1049.
Colorless liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Fruity-rosy, floral and fresh odor of moderate to good tenacity. Fresher odor than that of the 7-Butyrate. The fruity notes being light, Melon-Peach-like.
In flavors, it has been used for imitation Apricot, Peach and Melon, but not very commonly.
This ester finds very little use in perfume compositions, e.g. as a modifier for floral-fruity-herbaceous notes in Chypre or modern herbaceous-aldehydic fragrance types.
In flavors, it has been used for imitation Apricot, Peach and Melon, but not very commonly.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of 2-Octanol with iso-Butyric acid.