A fresh, penetrating minty-herbal aroma reminiscent of pennyroyal and pulegone, with a cooling camphoraceous edge. Less sweet and more medicinal than pulegone itself, with a green, slightly grassy facet.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1215.
Colorless liquid which turns yellowish when exposed to air and sunlight.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful minty-woody, mildly green odor.
Refreshing, minty-herbaceous taste in concentrations below 40 ppm, but rather sharp-bitter beyond that level.
It may be used in the artificial reconstruction of Geranium and other oils.
It is specifically listed in the American G.R.A.S. list of food flavor chemicals, and its use in various types of fruit, berry and mint type flavor is commonly discussed.
1) Possibly as part of 'total Pulegone' by isolation from Pennyroyal oil 2) synthetic from 3-Methyl cyclohexanone (both isomers).