A pungent, herbaceous ketone reminiscent of caraway and dill seed with a cool minty edge and a warm spicy undertone. Sharper and more medicinal than carvone, with a persistent green-camphoraceous facet.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 244.
Colorless or pale yellowish oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Warm, herbaceous-spicy odor, reminiscent of Carvone, with less character.
Spicy-herbaceous, but somewhat bitter taste.
Very rarely used in perfumes or flavors.
1) by isolation from the essential oil of Blumea malcolmii. 2) synthetically from Thujone.