A characteristic celery-seed aroma with a warm, herbal-spicy facet and a slightly oily, soupy quality. Distinctly savoury and umami-adjacent, recognisable as the key phthalide behind celery oil's signature scent.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1254.
Colorless or pale straw-colored, slightly viscous liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Warm, herbaceous-spicy and very tenacious odor, suggestive of Celery.
Warm and spicy, in extreme dilution Celery-like taste with no pungency at concentrations below 5 ppm.
This lactone is used in flavor compositions aiming at reconstituting Celery flavor, particularly for processed food, soups, condiments, dressings, etc.