Intensely bitter, dry and slightly medicinal — the characteristic taste-linked bitterness of tonic water translated into a faint, dusty herbal aroma. Quinine hydrochloride is largely a taste/flavour material with very little airborne odor; on a blotter it reads as a whisper of dry, bark-like bitterness rather than a diffusive perfumery note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1225.
Shiny, silky, needle-like colorless or white crystals.
6° soluble in water, 50°4 soluble in alcohol, 12° soluble in glycerin. Aqueous solutions are almost neutral.
Odorless.
Intensely bitter taste.
This Quinine salt is used in various Bitters, in Citrus and fruit flavors for candy, beverages, etc. Its excellent solubility in water and alcohol makes it very suitable for incorporation in flavor compositions.