Cool, penetrating spearmint character — the signature aroma of spearmint leaf. Fresh, slightly sweet-herbal with a green minty lift and a faint warm-terpenic undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 243.
Colorless liquid (synthetic product only, the isolated is pale yellowish).
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils. Fairly soluble in Propylene glycol.
Warm-herbaceous, breadlike, penetrating and diffusive odor, somewhat spicy, in extreme dilution also floral, overall reminiscent of Spearmint oil (rectified).
Warm and sweet, spicy, refreshing minty taste.
Occasionally used in perfume compositions, particularly in floral bases, where it introduces enormous power and often lends pleasing natural notes to the fragrance. However, it demands great skill and experience in application. It seems to constitute a very good and compatible companion to Rose Oxide and the Jasmone chemicals.
Extensively used in flavor compositions, mainly as a powerful Spearmint note, to fortify Spearmint oil, etc. in hard candy, chewing gum, toothpaste and many kinds of candy. Furthermore in Mint flavor blends, spice blends, liquor flavors, etc.
1) Synthetic: from dextrro-Limonene via the Nitrosylchloride (several patented methods). 2) Isolated: Very rarely from Spearmint oil, not commercially feasible. 3) from alpha-Pinene oxide via Sobrerol and Carvylacetate.