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octyl butyrate

fruity ester

Found in 12 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis structure of octyl butyrate
2D Lewis Structure
Formula
C12H24O2
Molecular weight
200.32 g/mol
PubChem CID
61030 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description
creamy, earthy, fresh, fruity, green, jasmin, natural, oily, waxy
Volatility
medium
CAS number
110-39-4
Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

✓ Exact match
FEMA number
2807
GRAS publication
GRAS 3
FEMA primary name
OCTYL BUTYRATE

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.

Also filed as
octyl butanoate

Same molecule, unified here — previously counted and displayed as separate compounds.

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.

creamy, earthy, fresh, fruity, green, jasmin, natural, oily, waxy shown above FlavorDB 2.0
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fresh waxy fruity green oily earthy creamy natural jasmin Flavordb Odor Column
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Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain octyl butyrate. 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 butyrate in it.

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