Sharp, cool peppermint character with a clean, crystalline freshness. Dextro-menthol (the d-isomer) smells distinctly minty-camphoraceous but lacks the pronounced physiological cooling effect of the more common l-menthol — it reads as slightly harsher, more medicinal, and less sweet. Dries down to a faint herbal-woody residue.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 782.
Colorless liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Pungent, woody-minty, slightly camphoraceous odor.
Somewhat bitter, sharp and rather unpleasant taste.
Low-cost mixtures of these materials are used in perfume compositions to give power and lift to fragrances, mainly soap perfumes or detergent fragrances, etc.
Due to the unpleasant flavor and lack of cooling effect, dextro-Menthol and mixtures containing that Menthol are of little or no interest to the flavorist.
Produced by Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction of l-Menthone, resulting in approximately two-thirds d-Neomenthol plus one-third l-Menthol. It can also be produced by reduction of d-Menthone.