A soft, fruity-floral ester with a lilac-like herbal character and a mild woody-terpenic undertone. Rounder and less sharp than terpinyl acetate, with a gentle sweetness reminiscent of ripe pear and lavender florals.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1281.
Colorless oily liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Balsamic-floral, sweet and mild, slightly fruity-herbaceous odor of moderate tenacity.
Peculiar fruity taste in concentrations lower than 40 ppm.
This ester is occasionally used in perfume compositions as a modifier in Oriental, Fougére, Rose, Lilac, Lily and other fragrance types, often in combination with the herbaceous oils: Sage, Spike Lavender, Rosemary, etc.
It is also used to a small extent in fruit flavor compositions, e.g. imitation Pineapple and Apricot, fruit complexes, etc.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of Terpineol with n-Butyric acid.