A fresh, aromatic-spicy material with a herbal, mint-adjacent lift reminiscent of the Mentha spicata family, carrying a cool green facet on top and a slightly warm, carvone-like spicy heart. Diffusive and clean rather than heavy, with a naturalistic herbal-spice signature.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1265.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Clean, sweet, powerfully herbaceous-green, refreshing odor of Spearmint type.
Clean, sweet and very natural Spearmint-type taste, sweeter and less pungent-burning than Carvone.
This ketone has been suggested for use in imitation Spearmint oil and flavor.
The author has no record that this ketone has been identified in Nature, and it has not yet been approved by the American authorities for use in food flavor.
Produced from laevo-Carvone by heating with weak acid or alkali.