Hexyl Acetate

Aroma Chemicals

Hexyl Acetate

Delivers a crisp, green-fruity character with prominent apple and pear facets, offering a sweet yet fresh aldehydic quality that bridges fruit and foliage.

Aroma ChemicalTopCAS: 142-92-7

Odor Strength

Medium

Odor Type

Fruity

Functional Profile

How perfumers typically use Hexyl Acetate in their compositions.

Accent

14 formulas

0.0%1.3%8.3%

Enhance

9 formulas

0.2%1.6%4.3%

Build

3 formulas

0.1%12.1%29.2%

Modulate

1 formulas

0.1%0.1%0.1%

Common Formula Contexts

Fragrance styles and categories where Hexyl Acetate appears most often.

Complex Composition

7 formulas

0.1%5.7%29.2%

Fresh Citrus

5 formulas

0.0%2.5%7.1%

Floral Bouquet

5 formulas

0.0%0.6%1.8%

Woody Aromatic

1 formulas

0.5%0.5%0.5%

TGSC Descriptions

Mosciano, Gerard P&F 18, No. 2, 38, (1993): Green, fruity, sweet, fatty, fresh, apple and pear

Luebke, William tgsc, (1983): Fruity green apple banana sweet

Other Descriptions

Hexyl Acetate

Symrise: Sweet, fruity, pear-like, somewhat green

IFF: A green, fruity, sweet, aldehydic note reminiscent of pear.

Moellhausen: Fresh, fruity, pear note

PerfumersWorld: Fruity green apple banana cherry sweet fruity berry-and-pear-like

Taytonn ASCC: Aldehydic/ aldehyde, fruity, green, sweet

Pell Wall Perfumes: Sweet, fruity-berry-and-pear-like, amyl acetate (but milder), floral and green
Unusual ingredient that, according to arctander has an odour similar “to that of “freshly decorticated cypress twigs (material ready for distillation )”. he goes on to say that “this ester is an excellent modifier / blender for labdanum, and a good companion wherever labdanum is used: balsamic-ambre-chypre-fougere, etc., and it acts as a supporting fixative.”