Isopropyl benzoate is a colorless liquid that has a sweet, fruity-floral odor. It can dissolve in acetone and ether, but does not dissolve in water.
Reported found in apple, pear, cocoa, honey and feyoa fruit (Feyoa sellowiana)
Isopropyl benzoate is used as an insecticide evaporation
control agent. This ester has found a little use in perfume
compositions, since it produces very pleasant
complex notes with Oakmoss and Labdanum,
Vetiver, etc. It is an “outdoor” type of odor, suitable for
all materials of the Clover, Lavender, Hay,
Fougere, Chypre, etc. and it may also be
used for variations in an Ylang type of heavy
floral or Oriental type. It is used in flavor compositions,
again partly for its nut-like effect in Hazelnut
and Walnut imitation, also as a powerful
undertone in fruit complexes, sometimes in
wine-gum flavors, imitation Blackcurrant, etc. The concentration used is equivalent to
about 10 to 50 ppm in the functional product.
