A warm, sweet fruity-balsamic aroma with a caramellic, slightly nutty character. Reminiscent of dried fruit, cognac, and tobacco with subtle woody undertones. Softer and more rounded than ethyl or methyl furoate, with a diffusive plum-like sweetness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1187.
Colorless liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Peculiar sweet-oily, herbaceous-earthy odor of moderate to poor tenacity.
Sweet, warm, oily-herbaceous, caramellic-earthy taste in concentrations below 5 ppm. Heavy-earthy, but still sweet at concentrations near 20 ppm.
This ester finds some use in flavor compositions, mainly in Chocolate and Mushroom imitation flavor, where the deep-warm, herbaceous-nutlike flavor adds power and character.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of 2-Furoic acid with n-Propanol.