Fresh, dry pine-needle character with a cool camphoraceous lift and a clean woody-balsamic undertone. The laevo isomer is prized for its softer, more natural fir-balsam quality compared to the racemic form, with a slightly sweet coniferous facet that persists into the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 155.
Colorless liquid or crystalline mass, melting at 29° C. (when pure).
Very slightly soluble in water, almost insoluble in Propylene Glycol and Glycerin, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet herbaceous-piney odor with a balsamic undertone. Reminiscent of Pine Needles.
Finds some use in flavor compositions for Fruit and Spice flavorings. The concentration will usually be about 70-80 ppm in the finished product.
Suggested for use in Fougeres, Chypres, Lavender colognes, Room spray fragrances, Bath oils, Pine fragrances, etc. Its odor is richer than that of the iso-Bornyl acetate.
Produced by esterification of laevo-Borneol. On account of its high melting point it can also be isolated from a mixture of isomers.