Fresh & Citrus

Cooling

The physical sensation of cold rather than the smell of a cold thing

cooling_mentholic 82 notes 308 materials 10 anchors

What it smells like

Mint, eucalyptus, camphor. This facet acts on the trigeminal nerve as much as on the olfactory one. That is why it feels cold in the nose and the back of the throat instead of merely smelling of something cold.

Where it stops

Cooling is a sensation. Aquatic is an image. A menthol crystal has almost no aquatic character and still feels like ice.

Smells most like

menthol - and in the same register, peppermint, eucalyptus.

Notes that load on it

Notes from our catalogue whose position on this facet is 0.40 or higher, strongest first. A note is not filed under one facet: it carries a value on all 34 at once, and these are the ones where this axis is doing real work.

Materials that carry it

Real substances, each keyed by its CAS registry number, that an external perfumery vocabulary publishes with a term meaning this facet outright. This is the layer that makes a facet checkable against something outside our own database.

Materials carrying this facet, with registry number, source terms and regulatory status
Material CAS Terms Status
d-camphor CAS 464-49-3 camphoreous, cooling, mentholic, minty Declarable
beta-pinene CAS 127-91-3 camphoreous, cooling, eucalyptus, minty Declarable
alpha-fenchol CAS 512-13-0 camphoreous, cooling, eucalyptus, minty
dihydrocarveol CAS 619-01-2 camphoreous, cooling, mentholic, minty
1,4-cineole CAS 470-67-7 camphoreous, cooling, eucalyptus, minty
(-)-menthone CAS 14073-97-3 camphoreous, cooling, mentholic, minty
2-sec-butylcyclohexanone CAS 14765-30-1 camphoreous, cooling, mentholic, minty
5-methyl-2-propan-2-ylcyclohexan-1-one CAS 10458-14-7 camphoreous, cooling, mentholic, minty
menthol CAS 1490-04-6 cooling, mentholic, minty Declarable
camphene CAS 79-92-5 camphoreous, cooling, minty
myrtenal CAS 564-94-3 camphoreous, cooling, minty
myrtenol CAS 515-00-4 camphoreous, cooling, minty
l-menthol CAS 2216-51-5 cooling, mentholic, minty Declarable
isopulegol CAS 7786-67-6 cooling, eucalyptus, minty
neomenthol CAS 3623-51-6 cooling, mentholic, minty
pinocarveol CAS 5947-36-4 camphoreous, cooling, minty
theaspirane CAS 36431-72-8 camphoreous, cooling, minty
dihydrocarvone CAS 7764-50-3 camphoreous, cooling, minty
menthyl acetate CAS 16409-45-3 cooling, mentholic, minty
camphene hydrate CAS 465-31-6 camphoreous, mentholic, minty
sabinene hydrate CAS 15537-55-0 cooling, eucalyptus, minty
isobornyl formate CAS 1200-67-5 camphoreous, cooling, minty
l-menthyl acetate CAS 2623-23-6 cooling, mentholic, minty
isopulegyl acetate CAS 57576-09-7 camphoreous, cooling, mentholic
3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexanol CAS 116-02-9 cooling, mentholic, minty
2-(3-methylbut-2-en-2-yl)oxane CAS 7392-19-0 camphoreous, cooling, minty
(+)-1,3,3-trimethyl-2-norbornanone CAS 4695-62-9 camphoreous, cooling, mentholic
5-but-2-en-2-yl-2,2-dimethyloxolane CAS 7416-35-5 camphoreous, cooling, minty
N,2,3-trimethyl-2-propan-2-ylbutanamide CAS 51115-67-4 cooling, mentholic, minty
N-ethyl-5-methyl-2-propan-2-ylcyclohexane-1-carboxamide CAS 39711-79-0 cooling, mentholic, minty

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Reading the two flags

Declarable means the substance appears in Annex III of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, so it has to be named on the ingredient list once it passes a concentration threshold. IFRA means an IFRA Standard restricts or prohibits its use. Both are facts about the substance, not about any fragrance: a perfume can contain a declarable material below the threshold and never print it, and a restricted material used within its limit is used correctly.

The source also supplies no common name for a large share of materials, so those display as a bare registry number and are ranked last. They are kept because they are real evidence: dropping them would make the vocabulary look better described than it is.

Anchor terms

A facet on its own is just a word we chose. An anchor is what makes it checkable: a term in an external, independently maintained vocabulary of odour descriptions, built for perfumery materials rather than for us. The material list above is drawn from the direct terms only, because a partial term corroborates too weakly to stand as evidence on its own.

Direct Terms that mean this facet outright
  • camphor
  • camphoraceous
  • camphoreous
  • cool,cooling
  • cooling
  • eucalyptus
  • mentholic
  • mint
  • minty
  • minty, peppermint
Partial Terms that lean this way but also load elsewhere

None

The rest of Fresh & Citrus

The other facets in this family. A note can load on any of them at the same time as this one, so they are neighbours rather than alternatives.

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