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Rhodinyl butyrate has a fruity, sweet odor similar to rose with a sweet taste reminiscent of blackberry.

Reported found in geranium essential oil.

ChEBI: Rhodinyl butyrate is a carboxylic ester.

By esterification of rhodinol, as for geraniol and linalool.

Open-chain olefinic terpene esters are presumably hydrolysed to the alcohol and the acid (Fassett, 1963). In the rabbit, the open-chain terpenes undergo ω-oxidation (Williams, 1959).