Allyl caproate
Synthetic Ingredient for Perfumery
Allyl Caproate, also known as Allyl Hexanoate, is a synthetic ingredient prized in perfumery for its sweet, fruity, and ester-y pineapple aroma. This colorless liquid, often appearing yellowish in commercial samples, occurs naturally in pineapples. It’s highly valued for creating tropical and juicy fragrance profiles.
Synthetic Ingredient for Perfumery
Allyl Caproate, also known as Allyl Hexanoate, is a synthetic ingredient prized in perfumery for its sweet, fruity, and ester-y pineapple aroma. This colorless liquid, often appearing yellowish in commercial samples, occurs naturally in pineapples. It’s highly valued for creating tropical and juicy fragrance profiles.
Synthetic Ingredient for Perfumery
Allyl Caproate, also known as Allyl Hexanoate, is a synthetic ingredient prized in perfumery for its sweet, fruity, and ester-y pineapple aroma. This colorless liquid, often appearing yellowish in commercial samples, occurs naturally in pineapples. It’s highly valued for creating tropical and juicy fragrance profiles.
Profile:
📂 CAS N° 123-68-2
⚖️ MW — 156.22 g/mol
📝 Odor Type: Fruity (pineapple) 🍍
📈 Odor Strength: high, recommend smelling in a 10.00 % solution or less
👃🏼 Odor Profile: Sweet, fruity, ester-y, juicy, caproate-like, pineapple. sweet fruity pineapple tropical ethereal rum fatty cognac
👅 Flavor Profile: pineapple, fruity, sweet, juicy (Test at 5ppm in 5% sugared water)
⚗️ Uses: Allyl hexanoate is employed principally in the formulation of pineapple flavors but it can also be used for peach and apricot essences and for apple blossom, peach blossom, strawberry, and wisteria perfume compositions. Allyl caproate finds use in perfumes as a part of fruity top notes in combination with green mossy notes. It also tends to round off the Aldehyde notes in combination with styrallyl esters. lifts the top note of fruit complexes; imparts typical apple and pineapple characteristics; gives sweet fruity aspects from 0,1 to 5%. It is an ingredient of some lipstick perfumes and adds a sweet juicy note to citrus flavors.Stable in body lotion (very good), shampoo/shower gel (good), soap (good), AP roll-on 15% (good), detergent powder conc. (very good), cleaner liquid citric acid (poor), cleaner APC liquid (very good), bleach (poor). Flavor use: citrus, red fruit, yellow fruit, tropical fruit, fruit others Recommended usage up to 6%.
Allyl caproate, also known as Allyl hexanoate, is an organic compound from the allyl group that imparts a characteristic pineapple note. Although it is a colorless liquid, commercial samples often appear yellowish. Naturally occurring in pineapples, the allyl group is a substituent with the structural formula H2C=CH−CH2R, where R represents the rest of the molecule. It comprises a methylene bridge (−CH2−) attached to a vinyl group (−CH=CH2), and is chemically very stable.
Personal note: I believe the allyl functional group is directly related to the pineapple aroma. We will explore this idea further.
Sources:
National Center for Biotechnology Information (2020). PubChem Compound Summary for CID 31266, Allyl hexanoate. Retrieved November 25, 2020 from https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Allyl-hexanoate.
