A soft, sweet floral-fruity ester with a rosy, honeyed character reminiscent of phenylethyl alcohol but rounder and more fruity. A waxy, slightly balsamic undertone develops, giving a natural rose-petal and light tropical-fruit nuance useful for smoothing florals.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1116.
Colorless liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Warm, fruity-rosy, herbaceous-tobacco-like odor of good tenacity.
Sweet, pungent-fruity taste in concentrations below 10 ppm.
This ester finds use in floral and floral-herbaceous fragrance compositions, e.g. Narcisse and Jasmin, and as a modifier for the lower esters in other floral types, including Rose. It is a supporting material in 'Tabac' notes with certain types of Oakmoss, Coumarin derivatives or Liatris absolute, iso-Butyl quinoline, etc.
The ester finds some use in flavor compositions for its pleasant modifying effect in Apricot, Apple, Pineapple, Peach, etc. but the iso-Valerate is more commonly used as a flavor material.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of Phenylethylalcohol with n-Valeric acid.