A sharp, ethereal fruity-solvent note with a rummy, pineapple-like sweetness. Very volatile and short-lived, giving a diffusive lift reminiscent of pear or apple skin over a slightly pungent, ester-like base.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1202.
Colorless mobile liquid.
0.5% soluble in water, miscible with propylene glycol, alcohol and oils.
Fresh-ethereal, fruity-floral odor of very poor tenacity. The fruity notes being apple-pineapple-like, while the floral character is more of a general lift of sweetness.
It is frequently used in flavor compositions for imitation apple, banana, cherry, melon, peach, plum, and in tutti-frutti, rum flavors, pineapple, etc.
The title ester finds very little use in perfumery in spite of the fact that it could introduce very attractive lift in topnote compositions for floral and citrus-type bases, etc.
The concentration is normally about 5 to 30 ppm in the finished product.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of r-propanol with propionic acid.