1,2,3-trimethylbenzene

woody hydrocarbon

Found in 5 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C9H12
Molecular weight: 120.19 g/mol
PubChem CID: 10686 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: aromatic, gasoline, solvent, sweet
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 1016 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 526-73-8
Retention index: 1172

Not in FEMA GRAS publications 1-33. Of 3,367 listed flavoring substances, none match this compound name. May still be food-safe under other regulatory routes (FDA 21 CFR 172, EFSA, JECFA) — check femaflavor.org for the authoritative current list.

How this molecule is described

Sources disagree about odour more often than they disagree about chemistry. Rather than show one answer, here is every description on file with how many ingredient records carry it.

Also filed as

1,2,3-trimethyl-benzene

Same molecule, unified here — previously counted and displayed as separate compounds.

Descriptions on file

Ordered by how many independent descriptor streams give each wording, then by how often it appears. The bar is still replication — one source copied onto many ingredients scores high there — so the two can disagree.

sweet, roasted, mushroom, fatty, hazelnut, chemical FlavorDB 2.0

chemical, cooked, pine FlavorDB 2.0

aromatic, gasoline, solvent, sweet shown above Llm Adjudicated

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chemical Flavordb Odor Column

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roasted, mushroom, fatty, hazelnut Flavordb Odor Column

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Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

Published thresholds

1 measured value from the literature. Grouped by what was actually measured — a threshold smelled in clean water, tasted in the mouth, or measured in a real food are three different quantities and are not pooled.

In a food matrix

1016 ppb

Measured in a real food, where the matrix shifts detection — not a clean-water value.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
1016 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	41315747

Only values we can attribute are listed. Where a compendium's licence does not permit public attribution its figures are omitted here, so every number on this page traces to a citable source.

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain 1,2,3-trimethylbenzene. Ingredients with a measured concentration come first, ranked by odour activity; the rest follow by how large a share of that ingredient's profile this molecule is. The figure beside each is how many different compounds that ingredient has in total — not the concentration of 1,2,3-trimethylbenzene in it.

104 cmpds

325 cmpds

346 cmpds

407 cmpds