A fresh, cool-minty aromatic with a soft herbal-fruity facet reminiscent of pulegone tempered by a light acetate creaminess. Cleaner and less harsh than pulegone itself, with a green, slightly camphoraceous mint character that fades into a mild woody-herbal drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1215.
Colorless liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Fresh, green-minty, leafy, sweet-fruity (unripe fruit) odor of moderate tenacity. The odor of the enol-acetate is sharper, more green, while the iso-Pulegyl acetate has a condiment-spicy character, sometimes almost dill-pickle-like. The title material is rather unstable and undergoes change in chemical composition and in odor, particularly if exposed to sunlight.
The ester is also used in flavor compositions, mainly berry and fruit types, at the rate of 5 to 25 ppm in the finished product.
The title material is used in perfume compositions as a freshener in rose, geranium, oriental, lavender, fougére, etc., particularly in soap where its powerful lift is appreciated.
Produced by cyclization of the acetate (enol-acetate) obtained from citronella and acetic anhydride. The enol-acetate is an intermediate in the process of making the title material.