Sharp, cool camphoraceous odor with a piney-woody character and a faint peppery-mint facet. Drier and more resinous than levo-borneol, with a clean terpenic freshness that fades to a soft woody-earthy undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 153.
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Almost insoluble in water, poorly soluble in propylene glycol, very soluble in alcohol, miscible with most perfume oils.
Dry-camphoraceous, woody-peppery odor. The dryness is characteristic and constitutes the main difference from the odor of iso-Borneol. The odor of Borneol is often compared to that of a good grade Rosemary oil (in which Borneol is present).
Borneol has a woody, somewhat minty and slightly burning taste.
This alcohol blends excellently with Olibanum products for incense type fragrances, and it forms a good background in many herbaceous-camphoraceous fragrances, Lavender- and Citrus cologne types, many types of room-freshener fragrance, Pine odors, etc.
Borneol is used in Nut and Spice flavor compositions, usually in mere traces.
Produced by sodium-reduction of d-Camphor. This yields a mixture of d-Borneol and iso-Borneol, or by MPV reduction of Camphor. Yields 50/50 mixture of above, or from Pinene via Pinene hydrochloride to Bornyl acetate to Borneol. Purification by dehydration to which Borneol is resistant.