A very volatile, ethereal fruity-ester note — sharp and rum-like on first sniff, with a light apple-plum sweetness and a faint solventy edge. Flashes off quickly, leaving little residue.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1186.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Soluble in water, miscible with alcohol, propylene glycol and oils.
Sweet-ethereal, very diffusive odor, fresher than chloroform, not as pungent as n-Propyl formate.
Sweet-ethereal, slightly fermented-fruity taste in concentrations below 200 ppm. Slightly burning mouthfeel at higher concentrations.
Occasional use in colognes to emphasize the lift, normally supplied by the alcohol in the finished solution.
This ester finds some use in flavor compositions, mainly in berry complexes and in imitation melon.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of iso-propanol with formic acid.