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Progress in Essential Oils

Progress in Essential Oils: Basil Oil, Part 2

The present article is part two in a series of two that provides the findings of various researchers on the chemical constituents in basil oil. Part 1 appeared in the May 2014 edition of Perfumer & Flavorist.

Progress in Essential Oils

Cinnamomum camphora oils, jasmin oil and its extracts, and dwarf pine oil.

Progress in Essential Oils

Brian Lawrence discusses Artemisia annua Oil, Scotch Spearmint Oil, Spanish Oregano Oil

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Flavor Bites: Nerolidol

Although subtle, nerolidol’s aroma is highly substantive and works to add depth to more volatile floral notes in a very wide range of flavors.

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Progress in Essential Oils: Cubeb Oil

This month's column discusses the chemical composition of cubeb oil derived from Piper cubeba L.

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Flavor Bites: Geranyl acetate

Containing a dominant rose note underlaid with fruity nuances, geranyl acetate is ideal for a range of floral, citrus, tropical fruit, berry and other flavor applications.

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Flavor Bites: Cinnamyl Acetate

While hardly effective as the main driver of a flavor, this ingredient can play an important secondary role in many flavors, adding depth and rounding out angular profiles.

Flavor Bites: alpha-Methylbenzyl acetate

This ingredient has multiple monikers and a similarly complex aroma character.

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Flavor Bites: Hexyl acetate

Combining the attractive characteristics of pear and banana, this ingredient works well together with several hexyl esters, including hexyl butyrate and hexanoate.

Flavor Bites: cis-3-Hexenyl acetate

The combination of green notes in many flavors can involve many additional green profile ingredients, but the balance between cis-3-hexenol and cis-3-hexenyl acetate is often central.

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Progress in Essential Oils: Grapefruit Oil

This month's issues discusses the chemical composition of grapefruit oil.

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Flavor Bites: Ethyl phenyl acetate

Though it shines in honey flavors, enhancing clove and bright floral notes, ethyl phenyl acetate’s soft profile in comparison to its fellow esters offers a wide range of applications, including hydrolyzed vegetable protein, green tea and more.

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Flavor Bites: Benzyl acetate

Though this ingredient is mostly associated with berry flavors, its characteristics can provide a striking berry nuance in a variety of non-fruit flavors.

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Flavor Bites: Para-mentha-8-thiol-3-one acetate

Though similar to para-mentha-8-thiol-3-one in odor profile, para-mentha-8-thiol-3-one acetate is more heat stable and is less prone to H2S loss on storage.

The whole area of tea flavors is the most obvious focal point for linalyl acetate.

Linalyl Acetate in Floral, Citrus and Berry Flavors

Discover John Wright's December 2022 column on linalyl acetate's versatility.

The Butyl Acetates

Butyl acetate: The use of lower aliphatic esters to create fruit flavors is most interesting and intriguing. Many of the flavors of our common fruits can be mimicked using a number of mixtures of completely different groups of these esters.

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Symrise's Caramel acetate

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