A soft, green-floral ester with a fresh hyacinth-like character and a hint of rosy-fruity sweetness. Cleaner and less heady than phenylethyl acetate, with a delicate leafy-petal facet that fades fairly quickly.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1100.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Fresh-floral and fruity-balsamic odor of moderate tenacity. The floral notes are mildly rosy, the fruity are reminiscent of raspberry, but the odor is overall very mild and quite versatile, although it carries a touch of greenness.
It may form part of various successful specialties, but the material is not often offered commercially.
Produced by direct esterification of phenylethyl carbinol with acetic acid under azeotropic conditions.