Synthetics
Prenyl acetate smells like a vibrant, green apple with sweet banana and pear notes, enhanced by a natural, fruity, and slightly floral ylang aroma.
Luebke, William tgsc, (2006): Sweet fresh banana fruity jasmin ripe heliotrope balsam
Symrise: Fruity, fresh
IFF: Fruity floral, not as pungent as amyl acetate but longer lasting. fresh green nuances
Moellhausen: Natural, fresh, fruity, green apple, banana and pear note, volatile, reminiscent of ylang top
Pell Wall Perfumes: Sweet, fresh-bergamot, fruity-banana, lavender, heliotrope
Arctander tells us that “this material was made commercially available in 1966 at a time when lavandin oil was scarce and expensive. any material that could help improve an artificial lavandin or lavender was of immediate interest. however, this material has found uses far beyond lavandin, lavender and bergamot … if increased use result in volume production, one may justly assume that this material can be produced at a much more attractive price and thus come into entirely new fields of perfumery application.”