Ethyl Phenyl Acetate
Ethyl Phenyl Acetate
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Your secret weapon for living flower effects.
Creates authentic nectar sweetness in seconds.
The ultimate honey-rose bridge for florals.
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Ethyl phenyl acetate opens with gorgeous honey sweetness—rich, floral, and unmistakably natural in character. Rose facets emerge immediately, soft and rounded rather than sharp. The cocoa-balsamic undertone adds unexpected depth, while a gentle waxy quality provides the animalic warmth that makes this material so valuable in fine perfumery.
Ethyl phenyl acetate occurs naturally in honey, wine, and various fruits, which explains its remarkably authentic character. It serves as a vital ingredient across all styles of honey accords, blending beautifully with bright floral notes while working equally well with heavier clover effects. The 312-hour substantivity ensures your honey note persists through to drydown—exceptional performance for such a sweet, approachable material.
Use ethyl phenyl acetate in rose compositions where honey facets add naturalism—it tames high levels of citronellol and geraniol while contributing warmth. It excels in muguet, orange blossom, and oriental bases. Blend with phenethyl alcohol, benzyl acetate, ionones, and vanillin for complex floral-gourmand effects.
Ethyl vs Methyl Phenyl Acetate
Both chemicals share the sweet honey-floral character, but their personalities differ meaningfully. Ethyl phenyl acetate is softer, rounder, and more versatile—the gentler choice with the widest range of applications. Methyl phenyl acetate is more powerful and penetrating with a distinctly harsher edge, though it offers stronger diffusion at lower cost.
For delicate honey notes and refined rose accords, ethyl is preferred. For powerful jasmine reconstructions and applications where bold projection matters more than subtlety, methyl holds its own. When substituting, ethyl phenyl acetate works as a softer replacement for methyl, though the reverse may overpower delicate compositions.
- IFRA 51
- 10% in finished product (Cat. 4)
- Odour Family
- Floral
- Appearance
- Colourless liquid
- Longevity
- Lasts 312 hours on a smelling strip.
- INCI Name
- ETHYL PHENYLACETATE
- IUPAC Name
- Ethyl 2-phenylacetate
Ethyl Phenyl Acetate presents a powerful honey-beeswax sweetness with rose and white floral nuances, underscored by dried apricot and subtle cocoa-balsamic facets.
Essential for honey accords, rose bases, oriental structures, and soap perfumery sweetening.
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: 10%
IFRA 49: 10%
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.
Usage in Perfumery
Ethyl Phenyl Acetate appears in 8% of the perfumes we have analysed, at a median of tr. of the concentrate.
- Odour
- Sweet, honey, fruity, rose, waxy
- Family
- Floral
- Common dilutions
- 1%, 10%
- Substantivity
- 312 hours on a smelling strip
Free formulasShocking (0.25%)
GCMS analysesJuliette Has A Gun Moon Dance (0.053%), Detchema Revillon (0.047%), Coty Chypre (0.02%), Cuir Cannage (0.018%), Rogue Rostracto (0.01%), Miglin 112 (tr.), Chanel Le Lion de Chanel (tr.)
Creative FormulasLyric Man (0.1–10%), Miel de Bois, Tobacco Honey, Champaca Absolute (< 0.1%), Chergui, Journey Woman, Jupiter, Kouros, Lanv. for Men Vintage, Lipstick Rose
Jasmine rose absolute (1.04%), Artemisia judaica (0.295%), Elaeagnus angustifolia flower absolute (0.24%), Orange, sweet (0.093%), Citron peel a (0.07%), Mandarin leaf (0.047%), Genet absolute (0.03%), Hedychium coronarium flower (0.01%)
Average content per species across published analyses, indexed by Essential Oil University.
Also known by 20 other names
acetic acid phenyl ester; acetic acid, phenyl ester; acetic acid, phenyl-, ethyl ester; acetoxybenzene; acetyl oxy) benzene; acetyl phenol; alpha-; benzene acetic acid ethyl ester; ethyl 2-phenyl ethanoate; ethyl 2-phenylacetate; ethyl a-toluate; ethyl alpha-toluate; ethyl benzene acetate; ethyl phenyl acetate natural; ethyl phenyl ethanoate; ethyl phenylacetate FCC; phenyl acetic acid ethyl ester; phenylacetate; toluic acid ethyl ester; Phenylacetic acid, ethyl ester
Statistics drawn from 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 Phenyl Acetate