A light, sweet-fruity ester with a soft balsamic character reminiscent of mild benzoin and ripe fruit. Has a gentle floral-waxy undertone that feels clean and slightly powdery, less sharp than methyl benzoate.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1168.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, miscible in alcohol and oils.
Heavy-fruity, almost pungent sweet odor with floral undertone and moderate to poor tenacity.
Sweet-fruity, berry- and plum-like taste in concentrations below 20 ppm.
This ester is less useful in perfumes because of its greater volatility and an odor type which lends itself more to middle notes than to top notes in a fragrance.
It is used occasionally in flavor compositions, mainly in imitation berry flavors in trace amounts.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of iso-propanol with benzoic acid.