Sorption characteristics, rates and capacities of polymeric adsorbents @AD-4, XAD-7, XAD-16, Duolite ES-865, Duolite S-761, Porapak-Q and XUS-43436) for ethyl butyrate and octanal were determined I using model solutions. Sorption of these two principal components of aqueous orange essence, was evaluated utilizing the Freundlich isotherm model. Breakthrough curves were determined using XAD-16 as adsorbent. The capacity of XAD-16 for ethyl butyrate in the column system was 4262 12 mg/g. There was no column breakthrough for octanal even after 130 bed volumes. Most (91.4%) of the adsorbed ethyl butyrate was eluted from XAD-16 resin by 95% ethanol elution. Recovery of adsorbed octanal from the resin was 66.4%.