Beta-carotene is essentially odorless as a pure pigment — a red-orange crystalline carotenoid used more for color than scent. Any perceptible note is a very faint waxy, slightly hay-like or carrot-adjacent nuance from oxidation products, not a true fragrance material.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 240.
Crystals of dark orange color.
Insoluble in water. Soluble 1 to 6° in various vegetable oils, 4° soluble in chloroform.
The material is virtually without odor at the concentration used for coloring purposes.
Extensively used for coloring of foods. However, Carotene has been suggested for use in Violet fragrances.