A cool, minty-herbal aroma reminiscent of pulegone and pennyroyal, with a fresh camphoraceous lift. Slightly medicinal and green, less sweet than menthol with a drier, more herbaceous edge.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1213.
Colorless liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Minty-herbaceous, bitter-sweet odor of moderate tenacity.
Bitter, rather sharp taste at concentrations higher than 50 ppm. Herbaceous-bitter or bitter-sweet, minty taste near 10 ppm.
This material is used in perfume compositions as a 'lift' to Rose notes, Geranium notes, Reseda and Oriental types, various floral fragrances, including Tuberose, etc.
It is also used in flavor compositions in concentrations equal to 5 to 30 ppm in the finished product. The application is mainly in the minty types and in a few Berry flavor types.
Produced from Citronellal via Citronellal-enol. The conventional method involves treatment of Citronellal with Acetic anhydride. iso-Pulegyl acetate is the end result. iso-Pulegol is an intermediate in the process of making synthetic Menthol (from Citronellal-source). Newer methods are based upon treatment of Citronellal with boric acid, followed by cyclization by UV-light.