A powerful, warm celery-seed and lovage-like aroma with a savory, almost broth-like character. Has a green herbal edge that dries down into a slightly sweet, spicy warmth reminiscent of maggi or aged celery stalks.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 379.
Colorless or very pale yellowish or straw-colored, oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils, poorly soluble in propylene glycol.
Very powerful, warm-spicy-herbaceous and sweet odor of excellent tenacity.
In concentrations below 5 ppm the flavor is sweet, warm-spicy, herbaceous, often classified as 'soup-like'. There is a certain resemblance to some of the characteristic notes of Opopanax.
The title lactone has been suggested for use in flavor compositions, mainly spice- and condiment blends for meat, soups, dressings, sauces, etc. It could also be used in the artificial reconstruction of celery- and lovage extracts (oleoresins or oils).
Produced from n-Valerophenone-2-carboxylic acid and formic acid, followed by controlled hydrogenation of the resulting unsaturated lactone (Ligusticum lactone).