Phenyl 2-furoate has a musty, mushroom odor. This compound is also reported as having a fruity, caramellic, slightly
earthy, oily odor.
Warm, oily-caramellic, slightly but pleasantly fungoid taste in concentrations below 2 ppm.
The title ester is not used in perfume compositions as far as the author is aware.
It is used in trace amounts in flavor compositions for its peculiar warm notes, mainly in Chocolate and Mushroom imitation flavors.
The concentration in the finished product may be as low as 0.05 ppm.
by azeotropic esterification of Phenylethylalcohol with Furan-2-carboxylic acid.
ChEBI: 2-Phenylethyl 2-furancarboxylate is a carboxylic ester. It is functionally related to a 2-furoic acid.
