A soft, fruity-floral ester with a rosy, honeyed character and a light apple-like nuance. Rounded and slightly waxy, it bridges rose and fruity accords with a gentle sweetness rather than a sharp fruity punch.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1117.
Colorless liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Fruity-rosy, rose-petal-like, mildly balsamic odor of good tenacity. Not quite as warm-herbaceous as the n-Valerate, but overall fresher, livelier.
Pleasant fruity, fresh-green and sweet taste in concentrations below 10 ppm.
The title ester is used in fruity, floral, Oriental, balsamic, Fougére, 'Tabac', Rose and other fragrance types in relatively discrete amounts. Concentrations of about 1 to 3% are normally sufficient to achieve a desirable effect, and higher concentrations may often have an adverse effect.
In flavor compositions, the ester is quite frequently used, mainly in imitation Peach, Apricot, Honey, Pineapple, Apple, Pear, Gooseberry, 'tutti-frutti', etc. Concentration is normally as low as 1 to 6 ppm in the finished product.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of Phenylethylalcohol with iso-Valeric acid.