A soft, refined minty-fresh odor with a cool herbal character, less sharp and less cooling than menthol itself. The acetate ester adds a subtle fruity-sweet nuance over the classic mint backbone, giving a smoother, rounder impression suited to fresh accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 786.
Colorless liquid.
Slightly soluble in water and glycerin. Soluble in alcohol, propylene glycol and oils.
Mildly minty and somewhat woody-herbaceous odor. Less floral-fruity and less delicate than the /aevo-Menthyl acetate.
The taste is also less cooling, but not bitter. More herbaceous with a trace of heavy-fruity, plum-like undertones.
For general perfumery work, however, it gives quite satisfactory results, and it finds many new applications in variations of Men's fragrances, Fougéres, Chypres, etc.
This ester is used in the same way as the /aevo-Menthylacetate, but it is inferior when it comes to cooling mouthfeel and delicately floral-fresh notes (e.g. for Muguet, etc.). It finds some use in soap perfumes, where price is a heavy factor, but it is not frequently used in flavor compositions.
Produced by direct esterification of racemic-Menthol with acetic acid under azeotropic conditions.