A soft, natural-smelling floral chemical reminiscent of fresh rose petals with a green, slightly leafy facet and a subtle fruity nuance. It has a transparent, dewy quality that gives rose and muguet accords a lifelike, just-picked character without the heaviness of phenylethyl alcohol.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1110.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet, earthy-rosy, mildly fungoid or mushroom-like, but overall pleasant and warm odor of good tenacity.
This ester is occasionally used in perfume compositions as a modifier in Rose, Hyacinth, Lilac and other florals as well as in Lavender and Chypre types, where a few percent may lend a very pleasant undertone and blend the herbaceous with the floral notes.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of Phenylethyl methyl ethyl carbinol with Propionic acid.