cyclohexanol

floral alcohol

Found in 6 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C6H12O
Molecular weight: 100.16 g/mol
PubChem CID: 7966 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: camphor, menthol, phenol
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 0.290 ppb – 9.3 ppb median 4.8 ppb · 2 published values · see all 2 with sources
Volatility: high
CAS number: 108-93-0
Retention index: 839

Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

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FEMA number: 2665
GRAS publication: GRAS 3
FEMA primary name: MENTHOL-5-Methyl-2-iso-propylcyclohexanol

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

Source: FEMA GRAS publications 1-33. 2 related FEMA records for this name — verify the exact substance for regulatory use.

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

0.290 ppb – 9.3 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.290 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	25717332, 31195973, 37382231 +1
9.3 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	25717332, 31195973, 41548062

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 (9.2826 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 2 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
tea	0.1	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 cyclohexanol. 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 cyclohexanol in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

245 cmpds

312 cmpds

325 cmpds

376 cmpds