Terpinyl acetate has a fresh, sweet-floral character reminiscent of bergamot, lavender and pine needles, with a soft woody-herbal undertone. It smells clean and slightly fruity, bridging citrus top notes with floral hearts in a rounded, easy way.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1282.
Colorless or very pale straw-colored, slightly viscous liquid, solidifying in the cold.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Relatively weak, but rather heavy, sweet-floral and very tenacious odor of Rose-Lilac-Honey complex, with the usual variations according to the purity of the ester.
The title material is used in certain types of fruit flavor composition, mainly in berry-types and in 'Bitters'.
The ester finds some use in Citrus-colognes, in support of Neroli notes, Lavender-Bergamot notes, green notes, etc. It is also used in certain topnote compositions with Citrus oils and 'green' materials.
Produced by cold Formylation of Terpineol, using Formico-Acetic anhydride.