A soft, sweet balsamic material with a honeyed floral warmth reminiscent of rose and hyacinth petals. Mildly powdery with a subtle salicylate creaminess, it dries down slowly with a gentle musky-balsamic character. Serves as a rounded fixative for floral and oriental compositions.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1113.
White granular crystals or crystalline powder.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Faint, but sweet and delicately balsamic-floral, Rose-Hyacinth and Carnation type odor of excellent tenacity.
At concentrations below 5 ppm the flavor is sweet, Apricot-like fruity or Honey-like, but at higher concentrations it is unpleasantly chemical.
As a fixative in Lily, Muguet, Lilac, Rose, Carnation, Honey, Clover, etc. it has excellent results on its record, and as a blender for highly chemical perfumes it can do small wonders.
The subject ester is used in flavor compositions, mainly imitation Peach, Apricot and Honey. The concentration is normally as low as 0.8 to 2 ppm in the finished product.
1) from Phenylethyl alcohol and Methyl salicylate by alcohol interchange reaction. 2) by azeotropic esterification of Phenylethyl alcohol with Salicylic acid.