isooctanol

floral alcohol

Found in 6 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C8H18O
Molecular weight: 130.23 g/mol
PubChem CID: 15450 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: fatty orange rose
Odor threshold: 32.0 ppb
Volatility: high
CAS number: 1653-40-3

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

6-methyl-1-heptanol

Same molecule, unified here — previously counted and displayed as separate compounds.

Where you'd actually smell it

Odor Activity Value = measured concentration ÷ odor threshold (32.0 ppb). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
beef	1.0	0.03	—

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 isooctanol. 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 isooctanol in it. Full concentrations are in the OAV table above.

54 cmpds

75 cmpds

144 cmpds

280 cmpds