octyl acetate

fruity ester

Found in 32 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C10H20O2
Molecular weight: 172.26 g/mol
PubChem CID: 8164 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: fruit
Odor threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 12.0 ppb 1 published value · see all 5 with sources
Volatility: medium
CAS number: 112-14-1
Retention index: 1483

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 3583
GRAS publication: GRAS 11
FEMA primary name: 3-OCTYL ACETATE

Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

How this molecule is described

Sources disagree about odour more often than they disagree about chemistry. Rather than show one answer, here is every description on file with how many ingredient records carry it.

Descriptions on file

Ordered by how many independent descriptor streams give each wording, then by how often it appears. The bar is still replication — one source copied onto many ingredients scores high there — so the two can disagree.

fruit shown above Flavornet Cas, Flavornet Name, Flavordb Odor Column 3 sources agree

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earthy, green, herbal, mushroom, waxy FlavorDB 2.0

green earthy mushroom herbal waxy FlavorDB 2.0

waxy fatty cognac winey mushroom citrus citrus peel FlavorDB 2.0

Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

Published thresholds

5 measured values from the literature. Grouped by what was actually measured — a threshold smelled in clean water, tasted in the mouth, or measured in a real food are three different quantities and are not pooled.

Orthonasal, in clean water

12.0 ppb

The reference measurement — smelled in water. OAV is computed against this.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
12.0 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—

In a food matrix

1.0 ppb – 1104 ppb

Measured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.102 ppb	water (food: beer)	Literature corpus	17499755, 33889833
Flagged: 934× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
1.0 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	35398897
190 ppb	water (food: reference standard (water))	Literature corpus	17499755, 25717332, 26299134 +3
1104 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	25717332, 26299134, 36944973

Only values we can attribute are listed. Where a compendium's licence does not permit public attribution its figures are omitted here, so every number on this page traces to a citable source.

Where you'd actually smell it

Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (12.0 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 5 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
wine	34590.0	2882 ⚡	PMID 40862136
banana	5.0	0.42	Corpus paper
beer	0.9	0.08	—

Concentrations from PubMed Central Open Access papers (free literature corpus, MIT-style licensed). Copper = OAV ≥ 10 (strongly perceptible). Green = OAV ≥ 1 (perceptible).

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain octyl acetate. Ingredients with a measured concentration come first, ranked by odour activity; the rest follow by how large a share of that ingredient's profile this molecule is. The figure beside each is how many different compounds that ingredient has in total — not the concentration of octyl acetate in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

457 cmpds

13 cmpds

mandarin orange peel oil

essential oil

18 cmpds

bitter orange

fruit

27 cmpds