A soft, creamy rose-honey aroma with a distinctive milky-lactonic facet. Reads as a gentle, dewy petal note with a smooth, slightly powdery sweetness — quieter and rounder than phenylethyl alcohol, and useful for adding a natural, skin-like softness to floral accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1106.
Colorless, slightly viscous liquid.
Slightly soluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Very faint, bland-sweet, fruity-ethereal odor, sometimes with a rosy note, presumably derived from a surplus of the alcohol parent.
The effect is weak and uninteresting, but the material does have some mellowing effect upon certain types of fruit flavor imitation.
This ester has occasionally been used as a 'blender' or little more than a solvent/diluent in perfume compositions, and in Raspberry flavor compositions.
The use in flavor creation is also very rare.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of Phenylethyl alcohol with Lactic acid.