Phenylethyl Salicylate has been reported to occur in some essential flower oils, is a crystalline solid (mp
44°C) with a weak, long-lasting, balsamic, blossom odor, reminiscent of rose and
hyacinth.
White to light yellow crystalline powder
Phenethyl salicylate has a faint but persistent rose-like odor, somewhat hyacinth- and carnation-like. It has a sweet taste
suggestive of peach, apricot and honey.
From phenethyl alcohol and methylsalicylate by interchange; also by esterification of phenethyl alcohol with salicylic
acid.
ChEBI: Phenethyl salicylate is a member of phenols and a benzoate ester. It is functionally related to a salicylic acid.
Combustible liquid. When heated to decomposition it emits acrid smoke and irritating fumes
