A soft, rosy-floral ester with a sweet balsamic warmth from the benzoate side. Less sharp and fresh than rhodinol itself — the benzoate esterification rounds it into a fuller, slightly fruity rose with a powdery, honeyed undertone that persists into the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1231.
Colorless or very pale straw-colored, slightly viscous liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild, but very tenacious, deep-sweet, rosy-balsamic odor.
This ester could serve as a fixative in many perfume types other than Rose, but it is generally far too expensive for such purpose.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of Rhodinol (from Geranium oil) with Benzoic acid.