A soft, creamy sandalwood-type odor with a mild sweet-woody character and a subtle balsamic facet. Less rich and milky than natural santalol but cleaner and more diffusive, giving a smooth woody backdrop with a faintly fruity, almost floral top nuance.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1245.
Almost colorless or very pale straw-colored, slightly viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Delicately woody, faintly Sandalwood-like, musky-sweet odor of excellent tenacity.
The title ester finds some use in perfume compositions for Chypres, Oriental-woody fragrances (in support of the Sandalwood odor), variations of Lilac and other mild florals, etc. It is an excellent fixative.
Used in flavor compositions as a trace component in imitation Apricot, Pear, Peach, Pineapple, floral flavor types, etc.
Produced by acetylation of Santalol.