Warm, sweet-spicy and unmistakably reminiscent of maple syrup and burnt sugar, with a nutty, curry-like herbaceous underside. Develops a slightly bitter, hay-like green facet as it dries down.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 161.
The hydro-alcoholic extract is very dark and resinous in appearance; it has an intensely sweet, rootlike odor.
The comminuted seed releases an intensely sweet, spicy, proteinlike, soup-like and caramellic odor. The characteristic odor of Fenugreek Extract is a celery-like spiciness, a coumarinic-balsamic sweetness and an intense, almost sickening and strong, lovage-like or opopanax-like note of extreme tenacity.
Fenugreek Extract is very useful in flavors such as maple, vanilla compositions, butterscotch, rum, licorice, pickles, cheese, seasonings, etc.
The extract blends excellently with cyclotene, heptalactone, maraniol, anethole, safrole, undecanolide, etc. and with celery seed oleoresin, lovage oil or oleoresin, licorice extract, etc.
Steam distillation of the seeds has been tried although with very poor yields of oil. Extraction with volatile hydrocarbon solvents or with weak alcohol will yield products of various appearance, odor and flavor.