A soft, creamy sandalwood-like odor with a sweet balsamic facet from the benzoate group. Less sharp than raw santalol, it feels rounded and slightly powdery, adding a mellow woody-balsamic depth that lingers on the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1246.
Almost colorless, viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very faint, balsamic, delicately woody-floral odor of excellent tenacity.
It is an excellent fixative, but its contribution of odor is very small compared to the relatively high cost of this material.
1) from Santalol and Methylbenzoate. 2) from Santalol and Benzoic acid by azeotropic esterification.