A soft, sweet honeyed-floral aroma chemical with a waxy, slightly rosy character. It has a mild, diffusive quality reminiscent of phenylacetate esters but rounder and more tenacious than the methyl or ethyl versions, lending a gentle honey-floral warmth to bases.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1058.
Colorless viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild, but very tenacious, sweet-floral odor of woody-Orange-Rose type.
The flavor at that level is barely perceptible as sweet, mildly fruity.
The ester is rarely used in perfumes.
It does find some application in flavors, e.g. imitation Apple, Banana, various berry complexes, Grape, Peach, Pear, etc.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of n-Octanol with Phenylacetic acid.