Patent ID: 6972010

Claim:
An absorbent article comprising an agent able to convey a perception to the wearer, without the need to create the external condition perceived by the wearer, comprising a delivery system for containing and delivering the agent to at least a portion of the skin and/or mucosal surface of a mammal wearing the article wherein the delivery system comprises an alcohol or ester or acid derivative of following formulae or mixtures thereof wherein in (I) and (II) R 1 and each R 2 independently are an acyl group with from about 2 to about 22 carbon atoms, or an alkyl, alkenyl, arylalkyl, hydroxyalkyl group with from about 1 to about 24 carbon atoms or hydrogen, whereby at least one of R 1 and R 2 is such an acyl group, R 3 , R 4 , R 5 , R 6 , R 7 , R 8 , and R 9 are independently an alkyl, alkenyl, arylalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxy groups of from about 1 to about 24 carbon atoms, hydroxy group or hydrogen group; R 10 and R 11 are independently an alkyl, alkenyl, arylalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxy groups of from about 2 to about 24 carbon atoms, hydroxy group or hydrogen group; A and B are independently a C 1 -C 6 linear or branched alkylene, alkyl, alkenylene, alkoxylene, alkoxyl, hydroxyalkylene, hydroxyalkyl groups; the values of x are independently from 0 to about 15; the values of y are independently 0 or 1, or wherein in (III) R 1 , R 2 and R 3 are independently an acyl, alkyl or alkenyl or hydroxyalkyl group with from about 1 to about 22 carbon atoms, and R 4 , R 5 , R 6 , R 7 and R 8 are independently selected from the group consisting of C 1 -C 10 linear or branched alkyl, alkenyl, acyl, hydroxyalkyl or alkoxy groups, hydroxy, chloride, bromide, amine or hydrogen.