A fresh, woody-pine odor with a cool camphoraceous lift, reminiscent of crushed pine needles and myrtle leaves. Slightly herbal and mentholic on the top, drying down to a soft, clean coniferous woodiness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 991.
Colorless or very pale straw-colored liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils, not in propylene glycol.
Warm-herbaceous, slightly woody and discretely medicinal-camphoraceous odor of moderate to poor tenacity.
Myrtenol is an excellent blender-modifier for Lavender, Citrus and Bay type fragrances, for Men’s Colognes, etc. and it gives attractive notes to Chypre or Oriental perfumes.
Produced from alpha- or beta-Pinene by oxidation with Selenium oxide or by chlorination via the acetate to the alcohol. Myrtenal is a by-product in this process.