Sodium benzoate is a white crystalline preservative salt with essentially no perceptible odor. It is used as an antimicrobial preservative rather than an aroma material and contributes nothing to a fragrance's scent profile.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1259.
White granules or crystalline powder.
35% soluble in water, 1.5% soluble in alcohol, poorly soluble or insoluble in perfume and flavor oils.
Odorless.
Sweet taste, but in concentrations higher than 1000 ppm it has an astringent taste or mouthfeel.
Sodium benzoate is used as a preservative and it has no mission as a flavor material or perfume ingredient.
Concentrations in finished products vary from 12 ppm in chewing gum and 40 ppm in Ice cream up to 1000 opm (which is maximum permissible in the U. S.A.) in fruit preserves, pickles, etc. Normal concentrations in these products are near 350 ppm, and the material is often used in combination with other fungistats.
Produced from Benzoic acid.