Ibotenic acid is a neurotoxic amino acid isolated from Amanita muscaria mushrooms; it is essentially odorless as a crystalline solid and has no established use in perfumery. Any perceived character would be a faintly acidic, saline note typical of amino acids rather than a fragrance material.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 737.
White powder or solid, white mass.
Soluble in water and alcohol. Poorly soluble in oils.
Practically odorless.
Faint, meat-like, mild and sweet taste in aqueous dilutions.
This material is used in flavor compositions or, rather, in the food additives industry as a synergist to the comparatively new flavor enhancers: Sodium guanylate and Sodium inosinate.
Produced: isolated from the Japanese fly mushroom. The acid can be produced synthetically.