Perfume Ingredients Derived from Terpenoids

The terpenoids form the largest group of natural odorants, so it is only to be expected that they also form the largest group of modern fragrance ingredients. 

Thousands of different terpenoid structures occur in perfume ingredients, both natural and synthetic. The chemistry of terpenoids is rich and varied, and attempts to understand it have, on many occasions, contributed 

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The remainder of this section is divided into 20 sub-sections. The first 9 describe the main approaches to the production of the large-volume terpenoids and the remaining 11 describe individual groups of terpenoids, sometimes classified biogenetically and otherwise, when more appropriate, by odour type. There are so many terpenoid-derived fragrance ingredients that it would be impossible to mention them all in this book. This chapter will, therefore, include only a selection of the more important and interesting ones. 

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