Aromavault

Identifiers

Manufacturer

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CAS number

623-42-7

CAS (all sources)

623-42-7

CAS (Perfumiarz)

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CAS (PerfumersWorld)

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CAS (FraterWork)

623-42-7

CAS (EU Hekserij)

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CAS (TSCA Hekserij)

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INCI name (FraterWork)

METHYL BUTYRATE

IUPAC name (FraterWork)

Methyl butanoate

INCI (Hekserij)

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EC number (Hekserij)

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FEMA (Hekserij)

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UN number

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Synonyms (PerfumersWorld)

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Synonyms (FraterWork)

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Scent profile

Note type (FraterWork)

Top Note

Odour family (FraterWork)

Fruity

Odour profile (FraterWork)

Methyl butyrate has a bright, ethereal-fruity aroma with a crisp apple-pineapple character, soft banana sweetness, and a light, fermented-creamy undertone.

Longevity (FraterWork)

Lasts < 4 hours on a smelling strip.

Appearance (FraterWork)

Clear liquid

Descriptions

Comment (FraterWork)

Methyl butyrate bursts off the blotter with a rush of crisp apple and ripe pineapple—bright, juicy, and immediately cheerful. A soft banana sweetness hovers behind the fruit, with a faint creamy-fermented quality that stops the material reading as purely synthetic. The overall impression is fresh fruit juice rather than boiled sweets. Use this material when you need instant fruit impact in the opening of a composition. It adds a juicy apple bite to summer colognes, a tropical pineapple flash to aquatic and floral blends, and a bright fruity lift over heavier woody or musky bases. It is also useful as a masking agent in functional products, where its volatile fruitiness effectively covers sulphurous off-notes. Methyl butyrate is one of the most volatile esters you will handle so support it with longer-lasting fruit materials like gamma-undecalactone [https://fraterworks.com/products/gamma-undecalactone] or ethyl maltol [https://fraterworks.com/products/ethyl-maltol]to carry the fruity impression into the heart. At a trace to five percent it delivers all the fruit you need without tipping into heaviness. aromachem

Notes

Methyl butyrate bursts off the blotter with a rush of crisp apple and ripe pineapple—bright, juicy, and immediately cheerful. A soft banana sweetness hovers behind the fruit, with a faint creamy-fermented quality that stops the material reading as purely synthetic. The overall impression is fresh fruit juice rather than boiled sweets. Use this material when you need instant fruit impact in the opening of a composition. It adds a juicy apple bite to summer colognes, a tropical pineapple flash to aquatic and floral blends, and a bright fruity lift over heavier woody or musky bases. It is also useful as a masking agent in functional products, where its volatile fruitiness effectively covers sulphurous off-notes. Methyl butyrate is one of the most volatile esters you will handle so support it with longer-lasting fruit materials like gamma-undecalactone [https://fraterworks.com/products/gamma-undecalactone] or ethyl maltol [https://fraterworks.com/products/ethyl-maltol]to carry the fruity impression into the heart. At a trace to five percent it delivers all the fruit you need without tipping into heaviness. aromachem

Usage

Average use (FraterWork)

2.1% in a perfume compound

Uses (FraterWork)

Adds instant fruity sparkle and crisp apple-pineapple freshness to fruit, cologne, and tropical compositions.

IFRA 51 (FraterWork)

No restriction for category 4

Links

FraterWorkhttps://fraterworks.com/products/methyl-butyrate

Methyl Butyrate

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