A soft, herbaceous ester with a lightly fruity-floral character reminiscent of terpineol softened by a creamy, waxy valerate facet. Opens with a mild pine-lilac freshness and settles into a rounded, slightly woody-fruity note with faint anisic warmth.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1283.
Colorless oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet, herbaceous-piney, almost amber-like, citrus-incense type odor of moderate tenacity.
This ester, although rarely offered commercially, finds a little use in perfume compositions for novel notes in men’s fragrances, as a modifier in juniperberry-amber-cypress notes, incense-notes, or balsamic-floral and various herbaceous fragrance types.
Produced by azeotropic esterification of terpineol with 2-valeric acid.