A light, volatile fruity ester with a green-apple and pear-skin character, laced with a fresh ethereal lift. Diffusive and juicy on top, quickly fading to a soft fruity-green nuance.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1209.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol, propylene glycol and oils.
Light, powerful, slightly winey, fruity Apple-Pineapple type odor of poor tenacity.
Sweet-ethereal-fruity, Apple-Pineapple-like taste in concentrations lower than 50 ppm.
The title ester has little or no application in perfumes, except in rare cases where it forms part of topnote composition for exotic floral bases.
It is used quite frequently in flavor compositions, mainly in imitation Apple, Banana, Peach, Pineapple, Strawberry, etc. Concentrations are about 5 to 20 ppm in the finished product.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of n-Propanol with iso-Valeric acid.