A soft, honeyed floral with a warm neroli-orange blossom character and a subtle grape-like fruitiness. Balsamic and slightly waxy in the drydown, it lends a rounded, sun-warmed sweetness that fixes white florals and citrus hearts.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1097.
White crystalline mass, colorless crystals or straw-colored, fused mass (poorer grades, old process).
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
A very pure material is virtually odorless, but odor descriptions are almost exclusively based upon testing of old material, manufactured by an unsatisfactory process.
The taste is very perfumey at 20 ppm or higher, while near 1 ppm it becomes sweet and fruity, Grape-like, jam-like.
The ester is used in perfume compositions for its sweet-fruity floral effect in Gardenia, Honeysuckle, Violet, Plumeria (Frangipanni), etc.
The ester finds use in flavor compositions for its Grape- and Grapefruit-like effect, which is only obvious at very low concentrations.
1) from Phenylethyl alcohol and Methyl-anthranilate. This produces a fairly pure ester, but it will contain perceptible amounts of Methylanthranilate. 2) Phenylethyl alcohol plus Isatoic anhydride produces a very high grade material, provided equipment is modern and vacuum distillation perfected.