Faintly aromatic crystalline material with a mild pine-woody, slightly camphoraceous odor and a touch of lilac-like floral character. Very weak in isolation — more of a diluent/carrier or expectorant chemical than a functional perfumery odorant.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1277.
Colorless or white crystals.
0.3% soluble in cold water, 3% soluble in boiling water, 8% soluble in cold alcohol, 30% in boiling alcohol. Poorly soluble in most oils, insoluble in most hydrocarbons.
Faint, balsamic-piney, camphoraceous, sweet odor. A highly refined, freshly prepared material has very little odor.
Bitter taste in concentrations higher than 40 ppm.
The title material has practically no application in perfumes or flavors as such, but it is briefly mentioned in this work because of its close relationship to the Terpineols.
Produced from alpha-Pinene or Turpentine oil by treatment with dilute sulfuric acid. It has also been manufactured in the U.S.A. from Pine Oil by acid treatment.