A light, volatile fruity ester with a sweet, rum-like, slightly ethereal character. Reminiscent of pear and apple skin with a faint pineapple facet, flashing off quickly to leave a clean sugary trail.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 alcohol, propylene glycol and oils.
Fresh-ethereal, fruity odor with fermented-winey note and poor tenacity.
Fruity, rum-like taste in concentrations lower than 100 ppm.
It finds some use in flavor compositions, mainly in fruit complexes, 'tutti-frutti'-types, rum imitation, etc. It produces great 'lift' to the flavor and is quite compatible with most fruit flavors.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of iso-propanol with propionic acid.