Sharp, volatile fruity-ethereal top note with a plum-like character and a slightly rummy, green edge. Flashes off quickly leaving a faint sweet-fruity trace.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1185.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Soluble in water, miscible with alcohol, propylene glycol and oils.
Powerful and diffusive, ethereal, heavy, almost nauseating odor.
Fruity, rum-like or arak-like taste in concentrations below 100 ppm.
This ester is probably not used in perfume compositions, except in rare cases of application in Cologne topnote compositions.
It finds some use in flavor compositions, such as imitation apple, rum, lemon, orange, plum, etc., and in many types of berry flavor.
Produced by reacting n-Propanol with formic acid in the presence of anhydrous calcium chloride. Also by azeotropic esterification.