A powerful, fresh-green violet-leaf note with a distinctive fatty-waxy, cucumber-like character. Sharper and more penetrating than methyl heptine carbonate, with a slightly oily undertone that recalls unripe stems and crushed foliage.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1054.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils, poorly soluble in propylene glycol.
Oily-green, mildly leafy and somewhat fatty odor of considerable tenacity. Less violet-leaf-like than the lower homologues of these esters.
This acetylenic ester has been suggested for use in perfume compositions but it probably had a very short life.
Produced by reacting sodium heptyne with octyl chloroformate.