Database/Fragrance/Carvone
100% natural origin · ISO 16128

Is Carvone natural?

Yes. Commercial carvone is extracted from caraway, dill or spearmint oil; no significant petrochemical synthesis route is used.

INCI nameCarvone
CAS6485-40-1
FormulaC10H14O · 150.22 Da
FunctionFragrance · Perfuming
FeedstockProduced by extraction and fractional distillation from caraway…

How we scored it

Monoterpene ketone isolated from caraway/dill or spearmint essential oil; natural = 1.0
What counts. ISO 16128-2 scores the atoms that remain in the final ingredient. Reagents, solvents, catalysts and protecting groups used during manufacture leave no mass behind and are not counted.

Where it comes from

Produced by extraction and fractional distillation from caraway or dill seed oil (d-carvone) or spearmint oil (l-carvone). No petrochemical synthesis route is commercially significant.

In plain English

A minty, caraway-like fragrance and flavour ingredient obtained from caraway, dill or spearmint essential oil. It gives products a fresh herbal scent and comes directly from these plants.

Structure

2D structure of Carvone

2-methyl-5-prop-1-en-2-ylcyclohex-2-en-1-one

PubChem CID 7439 ↗

References

  1. 1ISO 16128-1:2016 and ISO 16128-2:2017 — Guidelines on technical definitions and criteria for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients and products. ISO, Geneva.
  2. 2Carvone. PubChem CID 7439. National Center for Biotechnology Information. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
  3. 3CARVONE. CosIng — European Commission cosmetic ingredient database. ec.europa.eu/cosing ↗
  4. 4CARVONE. CosIng u2014 European Commission database for information on cosmetic substances and ingredients. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/cosing/search?search=CARVONE