Sharp, penetrating mint with a distinctly herbaceous, slightly medicinal edge — cooler and drier than peppermint, with a pungent, weedy green undertone from pulegone. Fades to a rougher camphor-herbal quality without peppermint's sweetness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 318.
Pale yellow to almost colorless mobile liquid.
Very fresh, strong, herbaceous-minty, but not very bitter odor.
Distinctly bitter, with a slightly cool-minty and strongly herbaceous note.
It finds some application in perfumery, e.g. in the reproduction of certain essential oils (geranium, etc.).
The oil is rarely, if ever, used in flavors.
This oil is steam distilled from the wild growing, freshly harvested, slightly dried herb of Mentha Pulegium.