1995 Volume 1 Issue 1 Pages 46-49
Yuzu (Citrus junos Sieb. T.Tanaka) is a kind of sour orange and the fruit has a characteristic pleasant, fresh, fulfurous, green odor. The detail GC-MS analysis of the sulfurous odor fraction obtained from peel oil using column chromatography and HPLC revealed the presence of 1-p-menthene-8-thiol (1) in combination with GC-sniffing, and 1 was estimated to be a character impact odor compound of yuzu.