A soft, sweet balsamic material with a honeyed, slightly floral character reminiscent of hyacinth and cinnamon bark. Warm and rounded rather than spicy-sharp, with a subtle powdery drydown. Often used as a fixative and sweetener in oriental and floral compositions.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1101.
White crystals or amorphous powder.
Insoluble in water, slightly soluble in cold alcohol, soluble in hot alcohol and oils.
Very faint, but sweet and pleasant, balsamic odor of excellent tenacity. There is a mild, floral-fruity note in the sweetness of a very pure material.
In very low concentrations, this fruity note is more clearly detected as a fruity-sweet, plum-like taste — at about 5 ppm or lower.
This ester is used quite frequently in perfume compositions in spite of its poor solubility, which is hardly a problem at concentrations below 5%. As a background note and part of a fixative base, this material finds its way into Muguet, Rose, Lilac, Sweet Pea, Gardenia, Magnolia, Peony, Hyacinth and many types of Oriental fragrance. Its effect could be classified as ‘Tolu-balsam-like’, although it does not carry the intense sweetness and complexity of the natural balsam. It is particularly good in the very mild and delicate florals.
In flavors, traces are used for fixation of fruity-jam-like notes, e.g. in Plum, Prune, Cherry and various fruit complexes. The concentration will be about 0.1 to 3 ppm in the finished product.
Produced from (several methods) e.g. from Phenyl-ethylalcohol and Methylcinnamate by alcohol interchange esterification.