Гаультерія
Sharp, cool, medicinal mint that is not mint. Wintergreen is methyl salicylate: the burning-clean smell of muscle rubs, old-fashioned candy, and birch bark.
- Type
- Складник
- Olfactive family
- Ароматичні
- Source
- leaves and flowering tops
- Chemical class
- complex natural (essential oil)
Запах
Докладно
Цікавий факт
Methyl salicylate is toxic in concentrated form. As little as 5 ml of wintergreen oil can be lethal to a child. Despite its candy-like smell, it is the most common cause of fatal salicylate poisoning in young children.
Отримання й хімія
Спосіб отримання
Steam distillation of Gaultheria procumbens leaves. Oil is 96-99% methyl salicylate. Most commercial supply is now synthetic.
- Формула
- C8H8O3
- CAS
- 68917-75-9
- Ботанічна назва
- Gaultheria procumbens
- Зовнішній вигляд
- pale yellow to reddish brown clear oily liquid
- Сила запаху
- Середня
- Стійкість
- 8 hours at 100.00%
- Синоніми
- TEABERRY CHECKERBERRY
No IFRA Standard for the material itself (51st Amendment)
- Температура спалаху
- 185.00 °F. TCC ( 85.00 °C. )
- Відносна густина
- 1.17618 to 1.18200 @ 25.00 °C.
- Показник заломлення
- 1.52900 to 1.54100 @ 20.00 °C.
У парфумерії
Top-note modifier providing medicinal sharpness and cooling. CAS 119-36-8. Used sparingly to cut sweetness. Functions in fougere, green, and forest compositions. Also found in birch tar accords.
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