A soft, sweet honeyed-rose note with a warm balsamic undertone. Rounded and slightly powdery, it lends body and persistence to floral accords, evoking rose petals dusted with honey. Low-key on its own but an excellent fixative-modifier for rose, jasmine and oriental bases.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1112.
Colorless crystalline mass.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Heavy and very sweet, extremely tenacious, floral-balsamic odor which is sometimes described as 'musky' or 'honey-like'. A pure, well-balanced ester has only very faint honey character, and is mainly balsamic-rosy, intensely sweet, tenacious.
At concentrations of less than 10 ppm the taste is pleasantly sweet, Apricot-Nectar-like, but it is less pleasant, less natural at higher concentrations.
The title ester is one of the more popular phenylethyl esters. It is used at levels from about 1% up to more than 5% in a great variety of fragrance types other than Rose and Honey. Its outstanding tenacity and good stability are utilized in soap perfumes where it may form part of the fixative base in floral, balsamic, Oriental and sweet-woody or tobacco-like types.
The ester is also used in fruit imitation flavor and Honey flavors. In Apricot it is quite a desirable item. The concentration in the functional consumer product will normally be about 2 to 10 ppm.
1) by azeotropic esterification of Phenylethyl alcohol with Phenylacetic acid. 2) from Phenylacetyl chloride and Phenylethyl alcohol.