damascenone

fruity terpenoid Key food odorant

Found in 72 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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Key food odorant (intermediary)

Dunkel et al. 2014

Identified in the meta-analysis of 227 food samples as one of 57 intermediary odorants — appears in 5–25% of foods.

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

Properties

Odor description: apple, rose, honey, tobacco, sweet
Odor threshold: 18.0 ppb
CAS number: 35044-63-4
Retention index: 1383

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

-damascenone

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 fruity rose FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree

apple, honey, rose, smoky, sweet, tobacco FlavorDB 2.0

floral, fruity FlavorDB 2.0

apple, rose, honey, tobacco, sweet shown above Llm Adjudicated

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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.

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain damascenone. 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 damascenone in it.

8 cmpds

26 cmpds

30 cmpds

46 cmpds