A sweet, ripe fruity ester with juicy pineapple and apricot facets over a light rummy-buttery undertone. Diffusive and short-lived, giving a fresh tropical-fruit lift to top notes.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1173.
Colorless mobile liquid.
0.2% soluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Heavy-fruity, Pineapple-like ethereal-pungent odor of poor tenacity.
Sweet-fruity, Banana-Pineapple-like taste in concentrations below 40 ppm.
The title ester is rarely, if ever, used in perfume compositions. It could find use in certain types of cosmetic masking odors (cold wave lotions, etc. hairsprays, etc.) but there are many other materials of superior effect for such purposes.
It is used in flavor compositions, in many fruit types, such as Banana, Pineapple, Plum, Strawberry, in Rum imitations, 'Tutti-frutti' flavors, Liqueur flavors, etc.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of n-Propanol with n-Butyric acid, or directly with n-Butyric anhydride.