cinnamyl alcohol

floral alcohol Key food odorant

Found in 382 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C9H10O
Molecular weight: 134.17 g/mol
PubChem CID: 5315892 — full record on PubChem

Key food odorant (individualist)

Dunkel et al. 2014

Identified in the meta-analysis of 227 food samples as one of 151 individualist odorants — appears in <5% of foods, carries the diagnostic signature of specific ingredients.

Source: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 7124–7143

Properties

Odor description: oil
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 77.0 ppb – 134 ppb median 106 ppb · 2 published values · see all 2 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 104-54-1
Retention index: 16

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

~ Likely match

FEMA number: 2294
GRAS publication: GRAS 3
FEMA primary name: CINNAMYL ALCOHOL-3-Phenyl-2-propen-1-01

Use-level matrix not extracted for this substance — check the source publication for current ppm guidance.

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33.

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.

oil shown above Flavornet Cas, Flavornet Name, Flavordb Odor Column 3 sources agree

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balsam, bitter, cinnamic, green, hyacinth, powdery, spicy, sweet FlavorDB 2.0

380

SWEET, SLIGHTLY CINNAMIC FlavorDB 2.0

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

2 measured values 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

77.0 ppb – 134 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
77.0 ppb	water (food: pink guava)	Literature corpus	36762076, 36781893, 37509125 +2
134 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	36762076, 36781893, 37509125 +2

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.

Where you'd actually smell it

Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (105.6 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 2 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
cassia bark	1350.0	12.8 ⚡	Corpus paper
cinnamon bark	1130.0	10.7 ⚡	Corpus paper

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 cinnamyl alcohol. 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 cinnamyl alcohol in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

15 cmpds

29 cmpds

83 cmpds

83 cmpds