geranyl alcohol

floral alcohol Key food odorant

Found in 1 ingredient across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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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 threshold — orthonasal, in clean water: 40.0 ppb – 57.5 ppb median 48.8 ppb · 2 published values · see all 17 with sources
CAS number: 106-24-1

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.

Published thresholds

17 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.

Orthonasal, in clean water

40.0 ppb – 57.5 ppb

The reference measurement — smelled in water. OAV is computed against this.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
40.0 ppb SIDA	water	Rychlik 1998 · 3 studies	—
57.5 ppb	water_odor	Leffingwell	—

In a food matrix

1.1 ppb – 40.0 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
1.1 ppb SIDA	water (food: green tea infusion (jingshan cha))	Literature corpus	29376363, 32251584, 11308345 +60
1.1 ppb SIDA	water (food: reference standard (water))	Literature corpus	29376363, 32251584, 11308345 +60
1.1 ppb SIDA	water (food: longjing green tea infusion)	Literature corpus	29376363, 32251584, 11308345 +60
1.3 ppb	water (food: lemon)	Literature corpus	20862741, 30009387, 31502246
4.0 ppb SIDA	water (food: ginger)	Literature corpus	29376363, 11308345, 17898513 +60
6.0 ppb SIDA	water (food: soy sauce)	Literature corpus	29376363, 17898513
7.0 ppb SIDA	water (food: fish)	Literature corpus	29376363, 24594176, 36144849 +1
13.0 ppb SIDA	water (food: wine)	Literature corpus	32251584, 11308345, 22156419 +3
13.2 ppb SIDA	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	32251584, 28480362, 32968179 +2
40.0 ppb SIDA	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	29376363, 19753606, 22978238 +38
902 ppb	water (food: beer)	Literature corpus	38698043
Flagged: 129× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
1235 ppb	water (food: rum)	Literature corpus	35523852, 37991061, 38974992
Flagged: 176× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
1257 ppb	water (food: rice)	Literature corpus	38346996
Flagged: 180× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.

Retronasal / in-mouth

7.5 ppb

Tasted rather than smelled — a different sense, not comparable.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
7.5 ppb SIDA	water_retronasal	Rychlik 1998 · 1 studies	—

In air

85.1 ppb

Airborne detection — not comparable to a water threshold.

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
85.1 ppb	air (C2_cometto_muniz_abraham)	Cometto-Muñiz (PMC)	—

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.

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain geranyl 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 geranyl alcohol in it.

black tea

beverage caffeinated

586 cmpds

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