Bright, sweet-cool mint with a rounded, slightly fruity-green character — softer and more candy-like than peppermint, without the sharp menthol bite. Dries down to a warmer herbal-green facet.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 360.
The oil is a pale olive or pale yellow, mobile liquid.
The flavor of this oil is surprisingly weak, a fact which is due to the water-solubility of carvone.
The oil has a very warm, slightly green-herbaceous odor, penetrating and powerful, truly reminiscent of the odor of the crushed herb.
The flavor is equally warm, almost biting, spicy-herbaceous, somewhat bitter.
In perfumery, the oil finds some use for its peculiar herbaceous-green effect in lavender-fougére or even in jasmin compositions.
Spearmint Oil is used primarily in flavors for toothpaste, chewing gum, candy, mouthwashes, etc. where it has attained great popularity as a modifier for peppermint.
Spearmint Oil is produced by steam distillation of the flowering tops of the plants, which are partially dried prior to distillation.
Restricted IFRA-standard materials typically present in this NCS at the listed concentrations.
| Constituent | CAS | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| L-CARVONE | 6485-40-1 | 67% |
| AMYL VINYL CARBINYL ACETATE | 2442-10-6 | 0.06% |