Sodium saccharin is an artificial sweetener with essentially no volatile odor of its own; on a blotter it reads as faintly sweet with a slight metallic-bitter aftertaste. It is not a traditional perfumery raw material and contributes taste rather than smell.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1263.
White crystals, granules or crystalline powder. Freshly manufactured, granular crystals are usually colorless.
30% soluble in water, 2% soluble in alcohol, practically insoluble in oils.
Odorless.
Intensely sweet taste, perceptible at concentrations of 15 to 20 ppm, sometimes lower. Concentrations of 100 to 200 ppm are very sweet, but relatively pleasant, and they leave only a faintly tart aftertaste, not bitter, but unnatural and undesirable.
Sodium saccharin is often used in combination with a low-power sweetener in the ratio of 1:12. It is consumed as a single sweetener in tea, coffee, and many foods, mainly for reasons of weight control.