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isobornyl acetate

fruity ester

Found in 11 ingredients across the CompKitchen flavor graph.

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2D Lewis structure of isobornyl acetate
2D Lewis Structure
Formula
C12H20O2
Molecular weight
196.29 g/mol
PubChem CID
637531 — full record on PubChem

Properties

Odor description
balsam, camphor, herbal, sweet, woody
Volatility
medium
CAS number
125-12-2
Retention index
1283
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.

balsam camphor herbal woody sweet FlavorDB 2.0, Flavordb Odor Column 2 sources agree
3
balsam, camphor, herbal, sweet, woody shown above FlavorDB 2.0
8

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

Thresholds in published tables

Numbers printed in open-access papers, grouped by the medium the table states. Median and full range of the values; “agree” means two or more papers whose middle 80% of values sit within 100×. Not reviewed.

MediumMedianRangeValuesPapersPapers agree?
unstated 1800 ppb 1.8e+03–1.8e+03 11 one paper
water 1800 ppb 1.8e+03–1.8e+03 11 one paper

Found in

Measured impact first, then profile share

Every ingredient known to contain isobornyl acetate. 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 isobornyl acetate in it.

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