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Santalyl acetate (α- and β-) has a characteristic, sandalwood-like odor. It has a pleasant bittersweet taste with an apricot-like undertone.

Has apparently not been reported to occur in nature.

SANTALYL ACETATE is used as a fragrance, mainly in the formulation of pear, apricot, peach, and pineapple fragrances. It is also used in orchid, sandalwood rose, woody, and heavy perfume formulations to enhance the top notes of sandalwood and increase its concentration; it has an excellent fixing effect in lilac, lily, and soft floral fragrance formulations; and it can also be used in trace amounts in apricot, peach, pear, and pineapple edible fragrances.

By acetylation of santalol obtained from sandalwood oil that contains the two stereoisomer forms (α and β) of the alcohol; therefore, the resulting ester is a mixture of the α- and β-isomers.

Taste characteristics at 50 ppm: woody, ionone and berry-like.