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ethyl salicylate

minty ester

Found in 27 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis structure of ethyl salicylate
2D Lewis Structure
Formula
C9H10O3
Molecular weight
166.17 g/mol
PubChem CID
8365 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description
wintergreen, mint
Odor threshold
84.0 ppb (1 source, non-SIDA)
Volatility
medium
CAS number
118-61-6
Retention index
1272
Regulatory · United States

FEMA GRAS — Generally Recognized As Safe for flavoring use

~ Likely match
FEMA number
2458
GRAS publication
GRAS 3
FEMA primary name
ETHYL SALICYLATE-Salicylic ether; Sal ethyl

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.

wintergreen, mint shown above Flavornet Cas, Flavornet Name, Flavordb Odor Column 3 sources agree
—
menthol FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree
1
balsam, floral, mint, minty, spicy, sweet, wintergreen FlavorDB 2.0
20
sweet wintergreen mint floral spicy balsam FlavorDB 2.0
3
sweet, wintergreen FlavorDB 2.0
2
floral 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.

Where you'd actually smell it

Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (84.0 ppb). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food Concentration (ppb) OAV Source
tobacco 218000.0 2595 ⚡ PMID 26388954

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 ethyl salicylate. 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 ethyl salicylate in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

white currant
fruit
35 cmpds
currant
fruit
43 cmpds
plumcot
fruit
45 cmpds
plum brandy
beverage alcoholic
81 cmpds
canadian whisky
beverage alcoholic
102 cmpds
japanese whisky
beverage alcoholic
107 cmpds
finnish whisky
beverage alcoholic
109 cmpds
scotch whisky
beverage alcoholic
118 cmpds
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