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alloocimene

woody terpene

Found in 9 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis structure of alloocimene
2D Lewis Structure
Formula
C10H16
Molecular weight
136.23 g/mol
PubChem CID
5368821 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description
sweet floral nut skin peppery herbal tropical
Odor threshold — in a food matrix
0.860 ppb 1 published value · see all 1 with sources
Volatility
high
CAS number
673-84-7
Retention index
1131
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
allo-ocimene

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 floral nut skin peppery herbal tropical shown above FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree
6
citrus terpenic tropical spicy nutty nut flesh FlavorDB 2.0
1

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

0.860 ppb

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

Threshold Matrix Source Paper
0.860 ppb water (food: unknown) Literature corpus 25717332, 31708938, 33152869

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 alloocimene. 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 alloocimene in it.

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