Terpineol has a soft, clean lilac-floral character with a fresh piney-woody undertone. It smells slightly sweet and coniferous, reminiscent of pine needles crossed with light muguet, and adds a naturalistic bloom to floral accords without sharpness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1278.
Colorless oily liquid
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils
Sweet, slightly medicinal-camphoraceous-piney odor of moderate tenacity. The sweetness is related to an anisic type of sweetness, the medicinal notes almost cineolic, but not as light or volatile, rather subdued.
The taste is pleasant at concentrations lower than 50 ppm, but bitter at concentrations higher than 200 ppm.
The material is still used in many countries as an active ingredient in Licorice-based, small throat-lozenges, with a possible antiseptic and expectorant effect.
The title material represents the complete or almost complete composition of fractions from a simple rectification of the reaction mixture obtained by acid hydrolysis of Terpin hydrate, or by simple treatment of Terpin hydrate with dilute sulfuric acid. It is also obtained as a rectified product from the crude Terpineol reaction mixture (European type manufacture).