pinocarveol

floral alcohol

Found in 356 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis Structure

Formula: C10H16O
Molecular weight: 152.23 g/mol
PubChem CID: 102667 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description: flower
Odor threshold — in a food matrix: 1141 ppb – 1666 ppb median 1141 ppb · 3 published values · see all 3 with sources
Volatility: medium
CAS number: 5947-36-4
Retention index: 1138

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.

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.

flower shown above Flavornet Cas, Flavornet Name, Flavordb Odor Column 3 sources agree

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Camphoreous, woody pine-like with a green thymol borneol nuance FlavorDB 2.0

342

balsam, camphor, herbal, pine, woody FlavorDB 2.0

herbal camphor woody pine balsam FlavorDB 2.0

Bars are the share of ingredient records carrying each description. High agreement means the sources replicate each other — not necessarily that they are right.

Published thresholds

3 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

1141 ppb – 1666 ppb

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

Threshold	Matrix	Source	Paper
0.004 ppb	water (food: lemon)	Literature corpus	34136001, 34824643
Flagged: 285250× from the median of this group. Excluded from the range above pending re-check against the source publication — shown rather than hidden.
1141 ppb	water (food: unknown)	Literature corpus	25717332, 28273883, 34708022 +2
1666 ppb	water (food: tea)	Literature corpus	25717332, 28273883, 34136001 +4

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 (1141.0 ppb, the engine's canonical value — see the 3 published values). OAV ≥ 1 = perceptible.

Food	Concentration (ppb)	OAV	Source
tea	1679.0	1.47	—
lemon	0.0	0.00	—

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

13 cmpds

32 cmpds

38 cmpds

60 cmpds