It is used for flavoring of candy, soft drinks (e.g. grape soda), fruit (e.g. Grāpples), chewing gum, and nicotine products.

[6] Methyl anthranilate both as a component of various natural essential oils and as a synthesised aroma-chemical is used extensively in modern perfumery.

In a perfumery context the most common Schiff's Base is known as aurantiol,[8] produced by combining methyl anthranilate and hydroxycitronellal.

It is obtained by diazotization of the amine group using sodium nitrite which eliminates nitrogen and CO2 giving benzyne as an intermediate for Diels-Alder addition or other substitution at the ring.

[10] Methyl anthranilate naturally occurs in the Concord grapes and other Vitis labrusca grapes and hybrids thereof, and in bergamot, black locust, champak, gardenia, jasmine, lemon, mandarin orange, neroli, oranges, rue oil, strawberry, tuberose, wisteria, galangal, and ylang ylang.