A fresh, minty-herbal aroma chemical with a cool, slightly spicy caraway/spearmint character. Softer and greener than carvone itself, with a clean terpenic lift and a mild woody undertone as it dries down.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 380.
Almost colorless or pale straw-colored liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Warm-herbaceous, powerful and diffusive odor, similar to that of laevo-Carvone, but slightly milder, less pungent, sweeter and in dilution less 'medicinal'.
Its use is mainly in flavor compositions, where it finds a place as a component of artificial Spearmint oil. It has earlier been reported as being a component of natural Spearmint oil.
1) by Isomerization of Limonene oxide. 2) from Dihydrocarveol by oxidation — or 3) from Carvone by reduction.