2(10)-Pinen-3-ol has a warm, woody, balsamic, slightly piney, fennel-like odor.
Reported found in grapefruit peel oil, bilberries, black currant (buds), other types of ginger, Scotch spearmint
oil, pepper, Thymus vulgaris L., hop oil, cognac, myrtle leaf and Roman chamomile.
This cyclic terpene alcohol, pinocarveol, has been used in perfume compositions. The material has also been commercially available as an intermediate.
Pinocarveol is produced from Pinyl aminoacetate or -nitrate with Nitrous acid, by isolation from Eucalyptus oil tail fractions, by Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction of Pinocarvone, or by Autoxidation of beta-Pinene with Cobalt siccative or by oxidation with Selenium oxide.
ChEBI: A pinane monoterpenoid that is a bicyclo[3.1.1]heptane substituted by two methyl groups at position 6, a methylidene group at position 2 and a hydroxy group at position 3.
Taste characteristics at 25 ppm: camphoraceous, woody, pine-like with fresh, cooling minty undernotes
Flammability and Explosibility
Non flammable
