Sharp, ethereal solvent-like top note with a light fruity-sweet character reminiscent of pear or banana. Very volatile and flashes off quickly, leaving little residue. Reads more as a solvent than a perfumery aroma chemical in isolation.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1164.
Colorless mobile liquid.
3% soluble in water, miscible with propylene glycol, glycerin, alcohol and oils.
Very diffusive, fruity-ethereal odor of very poor tenacity.
Sweet apple-like taste in concentrations near 40 ppm.
It serves occasionally as a special 'lift' to citrus colognes and to the alcoholic odor of the alcoholic solution of citrus perfumes and other light fragrances.
The title ester is used in imitation apple, pear, blackcurrant, peach, rum, various fruit complexes and liqueur flavors.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of iso-propyl alcohol with acetic acid.