Zingerone, with CAS number 122-48-5, is a synthetic aroma chemical known for its warm, spicy, and slightly sweet character reminiscent of ginger. It is often utilized in perfumery to impart a rich, gourmand quality to compositions, making it suitable for both oriental and spicy fragrance families. Zingerone can be found in various formulations, typically used at low concentrations to enhance the overall complexity of a scent. Its unique profile allows it to blend well with other ingredients, particularly those in the spice and gourmand categories, where it can add depth and warmth. As a synthetic compound, Zingerone is subject to safety assessments and regulatory guidelines, including those set forth by IFRA. While specific restrictions may vary, it is important for perfumers to be aware of any potential allergenic properties and to use it in accordance with established safety standards to ensure consumer safety. — AI-generated summary, 2026-09-02.
Warm, sweet-spicy ginger character with a slightly woody, vanillic undertone. Softer and more rounded than fresh ginger oil — lacks the bright terpenic top and instead delivers the cooked, candied facet of ginger with a faint phenolic warmth.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1392.
Pale yellowish, pale amber-colored or cream-colored crystalline mass.
Sweet-spicy, warm, heavy-floral, mildly animal-balsamic and Vanilla-like odor with excellent tenacity.
Sweet and spicy, balsamic Vanilla-like taste in concentrations below 40 ppm. Slightly pungent-burning at higher concentrations, but not very pleasant above 100 ppm. The pleasant taste level is generally between 10 and 25 ppm, depending upon accompanying flavor materials.
This ketone finds a little use in perfume compositions as a sweetener of warm, slightly spicy-tobacco-like effect, which can be modified into leather-notes, tabac-notes or even heavy floral (Jasmin) notes, according to the supplementing fragrance materials.
It is an excellent flavor material, not only for Vanilla imitation, where it gives interesting effects with Castoreum, but it is frequently used in many types of imitation fruit flavor, root beer, spice blends, Ginger Ale and in tobacco flavorings.
Produced by condensation of Vanillin with Acetone, followed by controlled hydrogenation.