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. 2017 Mar;55(1):95–108. doi: 10.17113/ftb.55.01.17.4861

Table 3. Odour perception thresholds (OPT) and odour descriptors (4548), and aroma group affiliation of the main odourants found in Malvazija istarska and Chardonnay monovarietal wines produced in 2013 and 2014.

Odourant OPT/(µg/L) Odour descriptor Aroma group
Linalool 6 floral varietal terpenic, floral
Citronellol 18 citrus varietal terpenic, varietal fruity
Nerol 15 orange flowers, rose varietal terpenic, floral
Geraniol 30 roses, geranium varietal terpenic, floral
β-Damascenone 0.05 sweet, stewed apple, plum varietal fruity, sweet
1-Hexanol 1620 fresh cut grass green
cis-3-Hexen-1-ol 70 grass, herbaceous green
2-Phenylethanol 10000 rose, talc, honey floral
Hexanoic acid 420 cheese, rancid fatty
Octanoic acid 500 cheese, rancid, fat fatty
Decanoic acid 1000 rancid, waxen, plasticine fatty
Ethyl isobutyrate 15 berry, blackberry sweet, berry fruit
Ethyl butyrate 20 fruity fermentative fruity
Ethyl 2-methylbutyrate 1 sweet fruit sweet, berry fruit
Ethyl 3-methylbutyrate 3 berry, blackberry sweet, berry fruit
Ethyl hexanoate 5 green apple fermentative fruity
Ethyl octanoate 2 sweet, banana, pineapple sweet, fermentative fruity
Ethyl decanoate 200 grape, fruit fermentative fruity
Isoamyl acetate 30 banana fermentative fruity
2-Phenethyl acetate 250 fruity, honey, floral fermentative fruity, floral
Ethyl cinnamate 1 fruity, honey, cinnamon sweet, fermentative fruity