Isopropyl salicylate has a soft, sweet-floral salicylate character — warm and slightly balsamic with a creamy, powdery facet. Less sharp and greener than methyl salicylate (no wintergreen bite), it drifts toward orchid/tuberose-adjacent nuances with a mild herbaceous undertone, making it a smooth, rounded floralizer.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1205.
Colorless oily liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet-ethereal-herbaceous, yet quite tenacious odor with distinctly fruity character.
It finds a little use in Fougére and Clover perfumes, as well as in various low-cost fragrances for household products, detergents, etc.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of iso-Propanol with Salicylic acid.