A soft, waxy-rosy ester with a fatty, slightly oily character reminiscent of rose petals combined with coconut-like nonanoic warmth. Quiet and diffusive rather than loud, it lends a creamy, natural floral roundness and acts as a fixative in rose and white-floral accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Colorless oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Oily-sweet, delicately rosy, petal-like and mildly waxy, herbaceous odor of good tenacity.
Its taste is pleasantly winey-ethereal, sweet and discretely fruity at concentrations below 5 ppm.
This ester finds a little use in perfume compositions as a modifier for Rose bases and floral-herbaceous complexes.
The ester is used in Wine and Cognac or Brandy flavor compositions but it is not included in the American G.R.A.S. list.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of Phenylethyl alcohol with Nonanoic acid.