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2-dodecanol

floral alcohol

Found in 5 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis structure of 2-dodecanol
2D Lewis Structure
Formula
C12H26O
Molecular weight
186.33 g/mol
PubChem CID
25045 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description
fermented, menthol
Odor threshold
57.98 ppb (1 source, non-SIDA)
Volatility
low
CAS number
10203-28-8
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.

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.

fermented, menthol shown above FlavorDB 2.0
5
fermented Flavordb Odor Column
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menthol 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.

Where you'd actually smell it

Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (57.98 ppb). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food Concentration (ppb) OAV Source
wine 1000.0 17.2 ⚡ PMID 31214795

Concentrations from PubMed Central Open Access papers (free literature corpus, MIT-style licensed). Copper = OAV ≥ 10 (strongly perceptible). Green = OAV ≥ 1 (perceptible).

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain 2-dodecanol. 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 2-dodecanol in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

cheddar cheese
dairy
186 cmpds
banana
fruit
366 cmpds
veal
Meat
407 cmpds
beer
beverage alcoholic
457 cmpds
apple
fruit
527 cmpds
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