A cool, herbaceous spearmint-like odor with a soft caraway-dill facet, softer and more rounded than pure carvone. The acetate ester adds a slightly fruity-green nuance and blunts the sharpness, giving a fresh minty-herbal character that sits between mint leaf and light spice.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 244.
Colorless, slightly oily liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in propylene glycol, alcohol and oils.
Refreshing, green-minty, Spearmint-like odor, more cool than Carvone, not as penetrating, but with a peculiar metallic undertone.
Sweet spicy-minty, green and refreshing taste, not as powerful as Carvone, but overall more pleasant, versatile in character.
Used in flavor compositions; increasingly used since it is now a commercially available item. For mint compositions, artificial mint oils, spice blends, meat flavors, etc.
Produced by direct esterification of laevo-Carveol with acetic anhydride and sodium acetate. It can also be prepared directly from alpha-Terpineol acetate.