A cool, fresh spearmint-like odor with a herbal caraway facet and a slightly woody undertone. Less sweet and more herbaceous than dextro-carveol, with a clean, slightly medicinal edge.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 242.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
The odor is more Caraway-like than Spearmint-like.
This alcohol finds use in flavor compositions to support the flavor of Mint, Spearmint, Caraway or spice flavors or flavor blends.
The concentration in finished product will be about 25 ppm. (Candy).
1) from Limonene by oxidation. 2) from laevo-Carvone by reduction with Lithium Aluminium hydride.