Sodium chloride (table salt) is essentially odorless in its pure crystalline form. It has no volatile aroma character and is not a fragrance material — occasionally referenced in 'salty' or marine accords conceptually, but contributes no smell itself.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1260.
Colorless or white, transparent or opaque crystals or granules.
26% soluble in water, 8% soluble in glycerin, poorly soluble in alcohol, insoluble in most oils.
Odorless.
Clean, saline taste, pleasant at 10000 ppm, barely perceptible at 2500 ppm.
Salt is widely used as a food additive and preservative, also as a synergist with other preservatives (Sodium benzoate, etc.).
1) by mining (“rock” salt). 2) by evaporation of subterranean waters. 3) by solar evaporation of sea water (“Ocean salt”).