(+)-Carvone smells warmly of caraway and dill seed — a spicy, slightly bready herbal note with a cool minty edge. It is sharp and diffusive on first sniff, softening into a rounder, faintly sweet spicy character.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 243.
Colorless or pale straw-colored mobile liquid. Darkens upon exposure to air and daylight.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Warm-herbaceous, breadlike, spicy and slightly floral odor, reminiscent of Caraway seed or Dill seed.
Warm, sweet, spicy-herbaceous, breadlike taste.
Occasionally used in perfumes, but the laevo-Carvone is often preferred here.
Used in flavor compositions as a fortifier for Caraway seed oil or Dill oil seed (in which oils this ketone is a major component).
1) Synthetic: no commercial scale production. 2) Isolation: From Caraway seed oil or Dill seed oil.