Synthetics
Ethyl acetate smells like a dry, fruity, and slightly musty pineapple with a pleasant, ethereal, brandy-like aroma that can be nauseating at high concentrations.
Mosciano, Gerard P&F 19, No. 5, 79, (1994): Etherial, fruity, sweet, grape and rum-like
Luebke, William tgsc, (1983): Ethereal fruity sweet weedy green
Pell Wall Perfumes: Ethereal, fruity-grape, sweet, rum-like
Arctander describes the scent as “pleasant, ethereal-fntity, brandy-like odor, somewhat nauseating in high concentration.” and suggests it is used “to make a topnote smell aged’ or more rounded-alcoholic, or to give a lift’ to citrus notes or other light notes, etc.”