Ethyl 2-Methyl Butyrate
Ethyl 2-Methyl Butyrate
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The essential green fruit modifier perfumers need.
Creates instant fruity sparkle and diffusion.
Radiant apple freshness for modern compositions.
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This material opens with immediate green tartness that perfectly captures biting into a crisp apple. Its sharp, ethereal quality provides tremendous volatility and lift. You'll find it transforms flat fruit accords into vibrant, mouth-watering compositions.
Use it strategically as a brightness catalyst in your fruity-florals, where its apple-pineapple character bridges fresh openings into heart compositions. Combine it with gamma-undecalactone to add juicy bite to creamy peach notes, creating realistic fruit skin effects. Blend with cis-3-hexenol for photorealistic green apple accords that sparkle.
- IFRA 51
- No restriction for category 4
- Odour Family
- Fruity
- Appearance
- Colourless liquid
- Longevity
- Lasts 4 hours on a smelling strip.
- INCI Name
- ETHYL 2-METHYLBUTYRATE
- IUPAC Name
- ethyl 2-methylbutanoate
Ethyl 2-Methyl Butyrate delivers a powerful, radiant green-fruity aroma characterised by crisp apple peel, sharp pineapple skin and tart unripe plum, creating an intensely fresh and diffusive fruity effect.
Essential top note for fruity-florals, provides fresh lift and juicy enhancement to fruit accords.
Fraterworks® is strictly a reseller of this product and is neither an agent nor official distributor for Ventos, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
General Information
General Information
Like most suppliers and makers of quality raw materials for fragrances, we do not filter many of our products. This ensures that no odiferous matter is lost prior to use but can result in the appearance of small particles or slight clouding.
All alcoholic fragrances should be macerated for up to a month and then chilled in a moderate freezer overnight before being filtered fine. This will remove all cloudiness or detritus and is the industry norm.
IFRA Standards
IFRA Standards
Permitted amounts in finished product:
IFRA 51: 100%
IFRA 49: Unrestricted
These are derived from calculated concentrations which do not replace chromatographic quantification on individual lots. Disclaimer...
For Trade Use Only
For Trade Use Only
Our products are intended as building blocks in the perfume creation process; they are not to be applied to the skin undiluted.
These raw materials are for use by the perfumery trade only.
UN 3272
Usage in Perfumery
Ethyl 2-Methyl Butyrate appears in 5% of the perfumes we have analysed, at a median of 0.1% of the concentrate.
- Odour
- Fruity, green, apple, sweet, sharp
- Family
- Fruity
- Common dilutions
- 10%, 1%
- Substantivity
- 4 hours on a smelling strip
Free formulasDior Rouge Trafalgar, Clive Christian 1872 Men
GCMS analysesNasomatto Baraonda (tr.), 1740 Marquis de Sade (tr.), Clive Christian Blonde Amber (tr.)
Creative FormulasSmoking Hot (0.1–10%), 1 Million Elixir (< 0.1%), Aoud Extraordinaire, Aura, B. Her, Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait de Parfum, Bad Boy Le Parfum, Café Rose 2023, Café Rosé, Carmina, Cherry Smoke, Citrus Riviera, Deep Blue, Electric Cherry, Elysium Eau Intense, Elysium Noir, Fougère d’Argent, From the Garden, Guilty Pour Homme EDP, Hindu Kush, Honey Aoud, Idôle, Invictus Intense, L.12.12. Blanc, Le Beau Le Parfum, Le Beau Paradise Garden, Love Hibiscus, Luna Rossa Ocean, Mandarino Di Amalfi, Million Gold, Muskaria, MYSLF Le Parfum, Olympéa Blossom, P.33, Palatine, Paradoxe, Paragon, Peony & Blush Suede, Pulp, Reine de Nuit, Rose Of No Man's Land, Rouge Chaotique, Soleil Neige, The One Gold for Men, Tubereuse 40, Very Good Girl Glam, You Or Someone Like You
Chamomile, german (2.16%), Pineapple pulp (1.64%), Shanqiu (1.4%), Cedarleaf (1.25%), Ambarella fruit (1%), Artemisia judaica (0.6%), Genipap fruit (0.5%), Lawsonia inermis flower a (0.4%), Tagetes lemmonii (0.33%), Carob bean extract (0.2%), Mandrake fruit (0.19%), Annual wormwood (0.157%), Tagetes (0.117%), Hyptis spicigera (0.05%), Roman chamomile (0.04%), Genet absolute (0.02%), Calamintha nepeta (0.015%), Laurel leaf (0.01%), Oregano, mexican (0.01%), Otostegia fruticosa (0.01%)
Average content per species across published analyses, indexed by Essential Oil University.
Also known by 33 other names
(2S)-2-; (S)-; (S)-(+)-; berry butyrate; butanoic acid, 2-methyl-, ethyl ester; butyric acid, 2-methyl-, ethyl ester; cydrane; D-; DL-2-; dorintha; ethyl (2R)-2-methylbutanoate; ethyl (2S)-2-methyl butanoate; ethyl (R)-2-methylbutanoate; ethyl (S)-2-methylbutyrate; ethyl 2 methyll butyrate synthetic; ethyl 2-methyl butanoate; ethyl 2-methyl butyrate (natural); ethyl 2-methyl butyrate FCC; ethyl 2-methyl butyrate natural; ethyl 2-methyl butyrate pure FCC; ethyl 2-methylbutyrate 99%, (naturals); ethyl a-methylbutyrate; ethyl alpha-methyl butyrate; ethyl DL-2-methylbutyrate; ethyl methyl butyrate-2; ethyl methyl butyrate-2 natural; ethyl methyl-2-butyrate; ethyl-2-methyl butyrate, natural; methyl butanoic acid ethyl ester; methyl butyric acid ethyl ester; methyl ethyl ester butanoic acid; nat.; nat.D-
Statistics drawn from over 10,000 formulas including published GCMS analyses, commercial and demonstration formulas. References to third-party perfumes, brand names and trade marks are solely for identification and comparison. Formulas not made, supplied, licensed, authorised, sponsored or endorsed by the manufacturer or trade mark owner.
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Ethyl 2-Methyl Butyrate