A light, fresh terpene-like aroma with a citrus-herbal character and a faint cooling minty edge. Volatile and diffusive, it lifts top notes with a clean, slightly hydrocarbon-green quality.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 781.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with oils.
Typical hydrocarbon-odor, similar to that of para-Cymene, rather harsh, but in extreme dilution quite refreshing, almost citrusy.
This hydrocarbon, rarely offered commercially, finds a little use in perfumery, mainly in the preparation of artificial essential oils.
Produced by dehydration of Menthol. It has also been prepared by catalytic hydrogenation of Limonene (Platinum catalyst) or Dipentene (Nickel).