Food Odor and Organoleptic Chemicals

Organoleptic Classes and Organoleptic Types

ChEFS integrates organoleptic compounds that have the following odor properties.

Odor Class Odor Organoleptic Chemical
Animal Class tallow 6-decenal
Aromatic Class vanilla acetovanillone
Aromatic Class cocoa butyl methylbutyrate
Aromatic Class anise estragole
Berry Class grape ethyl decanoate
Berry Class black currant mercapto methyl pentanone
Citrus Class orange limonene
Citrus Class coriander linalyl formate
Citrus Class lavender linalyl valerate
Dairy Class butter 2,3-pentadione
Dairy Class cream acetoin
Dairy Class cheese octanoic acid
Edible oil Class fried 2,4-heptadienal
Edible oil Class wine butanol
Fermented Class onion dimethyl disulfide
Fermented Class yeast ethyl valerate
Fermented Class bitter isobutanol
Fishy Class fish (E,Z)-3,6-nonadien-1-ol
Floral Class lily lauric aldehyde
Floral Class jasmine methyl dihydroepijasmonate
Floral Class hawthorne phenylethanal
Grain Class bread 2-acetylpyrrole
Grain Class bitter almond 4-acetyltoluene
Herbs Class balsamic p-coumaric acid
Herbs Class grass (Z)-3-hexenol
Herbs Class coumarin 4-hexanolide
Herbs Class leaf isopulegyl acetate
Maillard Class roast 4-Carbethoxy butyrolactone
Maillard Class biscuit 4-heptenal
Maillard Class popcorn acetylpyridine
Mineral Class paper 2-nonenal
Mineral Class garlic allyl isothiocyanate, allyspol
Mineral Class camphor camphene hydrate
Pome Class watermelon 2,4-nonadienal
Pome Class apple 2-hexenal
Pome Class pear butyl acetate
Processed meat Class cooked meat 12-methyltridecanal
Processed meat Class roasted meat 3-(acetylthio)-2-methylfuran
Processed meat Class smoke Furfurylmethyl disulphide
Raw meat Class thiamin 1-(methylthio) ethanethiol
Seed spices Class horseradish 4-pentenyl isothiocyanate
Seed spices Class pepper asaricin
Seed spices Class basil DL-carvone
Stone Class fat gamma-decalactone
Stone Class apricot gamma-undecalactone
Stone Class plum benzyl butanoate
Sweet spices Class clove 4-ethylguaiacol
Sweet spices Class licorice dehydro-ar-ionene
Sweet spices Class ether ethyl tetradecanoate
Tropical Class grapefruit (+)-nootkatone
Tropical Class pineapple ethyl acetate
Tropical Class banana hexenyl acetate
Vegetable Class mushroom (E)-2-penten-1-ol
Vegetable Class seaweed 2,4-decadienal
Vegetable Class potato 2,5-dimethyl-3-ethylpyrazine
Vegetable Class broccoli 5-(methylthio)-valeronitrile