Sharp, penetrating camphoraceous odor with a cool, medicinal freshness reminiscent of mothballs and menthol-adjacent terpenes. Dry, slightly woody undertone with a pine-like lift; diffuses quickly and can numb the nose at higher concentrations.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 236.
Grainy-crystalline translucent mass, or grainy crystals
Soluble 0.12° in water, 50° in alcohol, miscible with most oils
Warm-minty almost ethereal-diffusive odor of very low tenacity
Slightly bitter warm, then cool taste
Occasionally used in perfume compositions, more often in artificial essential oils of the Lavender-Lavandin-Spike family. Also in certain types of masking odors for industrial purposes
Used in flavor compositions, mainly in mint flavors as a 'lift' and as a modifier
1) Naturally isolated from distilled Camphor wood oil. 2) Synthetic from Vinyl chloride cyclopentadiene (mainly in Germany). 3) From Pinene (mainly in the U.S.A.)