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SANTALYL SALICYLATE

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Material type
synthetic aroma chemical
Canonical source
arctander
Formulation

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Compatibility tags
woodyorientalchyprefloralambersandalwood
How it behaves

Olfactory profile

Family
sweet
Note tendency
Base
Descriptors
woodybalsamicsweet

A soft, creamy sandalwood-balsamic material with a gentle sweet-woody character. It smells like a smoothed, muted sandalwood facet with a mild salicylate warmth — quiet, diffusive, and long-lasting, useful as a fixative and rounding agent rather than a dominant note.AI · claude-opus-4-7

Intensity
3 / 10
Tenacity
9 / 10
Volatility
2 / 10
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chemicals · No. 2830

Arctander monograph

Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1249.

tenacity · excellent
sweetbalsamicwoody
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BP
320°C
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Sp.Gr.
1.07
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Appearance

Yellowish oily liquid.

Solubility

Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.

Odor

Very faint, sweet-balsamic-woody odor of excellent tenacity.

Uses in perfumery

The title material has had some application in pharmaceutical praxis, but the author is not aware of any use of the ester in perfumery, except in rare cases as a fixative.

Production

1) from Santalol and Methylsalicylate. 2) by azeotropic esterification of Santalol and Salicylic acid in presence of a catalyst.

Identity
Aliases · 1
Santalyl-ortho-hydroxybenzoate
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