Fragrance Ingredients Derived from Terpenoids

In order to illustrate the above factors in operation, we will look at the history of the production of a group of monoterpenoids, related to citral, which are major ingredients of the fragrance industry. In order to understand the commercial background to the technical work, it will be beneficial first to look at some of the background to the fragrance ingredients business. 

The terpenoids form the largest group of natural odorants and so it is only to be expected that they also form the largest group of modern fragrance ingredients. Thousands of different terpenoid structures, both natural and synthetic, will be found in perfumes from fine fragrance to household cleaners. Some of the more important ones are shown in Table 9.1. 

Total rose alcohol and citral related materials 22500 

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In this last section, we shall look at some typical terpenoid fragrance ingredients in order to illustrate the flow from naturally derived... 

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