A fresh, spearmint-like odor with a soft fruity-herbal facet reminiscent of caraway and dill. Cleaner and less camphoraceous than free carvone, with a mellow, slightly sweet green undertone from the propionate ester.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 245.
Colorless, slightly oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet, warm, minty-spearminty, warmer and more herbaceous than the acetate, also displaying a slightly fruity undertone.
Sweet, herbaceous-fruity-minty taste.
Occasionally used as a modifier for the acetate in mint flavor compositions, particularly for candy.
Produced by direct esterification of laevo-Carvone with Propionic anhydride. Also from alpha-Terpineol propionate.