citronellyl butyrate

ester

Found in 4 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C14H26O2
Molecular weight: 226.35 g/mol
PubChem CID: 8835 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: fruit, sweet, rose
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 1620 ppb – 1786 ppb median 1620 ppb · 3 published values · see all 3 with sources
Volatility: medium
CAS number: 141-16-2
Retention index: 1530

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

~ Likely match

FEMA number: 2312
GRAS publication: GRAS 3
FEMA primary name: CITRONELLYL BUTYRATE-3,7-Dimethyl-6-octen

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.

fruit, sweet, rose shown above Flavornet Cas, Flavornet Name, Flavordb Odor Column 3 sources agree

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floral, fruit, fruity, geranium, green, rose, sweet, tropical, waxy 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

3 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

1620 ppb – 1786 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
1.1 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	23758650
Flagged: 1543× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
1620 ppb	water (food: rice)	Literature corpus	38346996
1786 ppb	water (food: beef)	Literature corpus	39410216

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 (1620.407 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 3 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
beef	1791.0	1.11	—
rice	25.0	0.02	—

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 citronellyl butyrate. 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 citronellyl butyrate in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

28 cmpds

204 cmpds

472 cmpds

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