Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 319.
Natural peppermint oil is a pale yellow or pale olive colored liquid.
The oil is more easily soluble in diluted alcohol.
Natural peppermint oil has a fresh, strong, somewhat grassy-minty odor with a deep balsamic-sweet undertone and a sweet, clean dryout note.
The flavor of the oil appears strong and cooling, but the cooling effect masks some of the delicate, sweet-balsamic undertones of the oil.
Peppermint oil is occasionally used in perfumes, e.g. in lavender colognes, fougères, geranium bases, etc. for its generally lifting effects at low concentration.
Peppermint oil is a world-wide accepted everyday flavor material.
True peppermint oil is steam distilled from the partially dried herb of Mentha Piperita.
Restricted IFRA-standard materials typically present in this NCS at the listed concentrations.
| Constituent | CAS | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| Carvone | 99-49-0 | 0.1% |