A refined, drier and smoother interpretation of vetiver — the earthy, rooty character of vetiver oil is softened and rounded by the acetate ester, giving a cleaner woody-green profile with a subtle sweet nuance. Less smoky and rustic than raw vetiver, more polished and elegant, with good fixative quality.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1383.
Almost colorless or pale straw-colored, sometimes pale olive-green slightly viscous liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils. Poorly soluble in Glycols.
Sweet-and-dry, fresh-woody and exceptionally tenacious odor. Poorer grades display conspicuous notes of Vetiver oil (green, earthy, rooty notes, etc.). The beauty of the odor is only fully appreciated when the material is incorporated in a suitable perfume. The peculiar dry-sweet note does not appear with a woody tone, but it gives fresh lift, yet outstanding tenacity and warmth to a fragrance.
Although this ester can be used in almost any type of perfume, it has its most attractive effect in Chypres, modern aldehydic perfumes, compositions with Ionones, Opopanax, Olibanum, Orris, etc. and it is nearly perfect for powder perfumes. Many world-wide known, very successful fashion perfumes owe part of their success to this item.
1) by Acetylation of Vetiver oil with Acetic anhydride, followed by fractionated distillation. 2) careful Acetylation of the Vetiverol, prepared by method 3) in monograph: Vetiverol, may lead to exceptionally high grade Vetiveryl acetate. 3) crude products are sometimes made by Acetylation of Vetiver oil without subsequent fractionation, but perhaps only topping of 5 to 10% light fractions. The product is dark and of very inferior odor.