Patent ID: 7923049

Claim:
A process for augmenting, enhancing, modifying, or imparting an aroma or taste of fruity, berry, cranberry and/or hedonically-stable citrus to a foodstuff, a chewing gum, a toothpaste, a medicinal product, or a beverage comprising the step of adding an aroma or taste augmenting, enhancing, modifying, or imparting quantity of at least an oxo-terpene derivative selected from the group consisting of a terpene carbinol, a terpene carbinyl C 1 -C 6 alkanoate, and a terpene carbinyl C 4 -C 6 alkenoate, said oxo-terpene derivative being defined according to a structure selected from the group consisting of: wherein the covalent bond containing the dashed line represents a carbon-carbon single bond or a carbon-carbon double bond; wherein R is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C 1 -C 6 alkanoyl and C 4 -C 6 alkenyl; wherein R′ is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and methyl; and wherein R″ is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and acetyl, with the proviso that if the aroma or taste is hedonically-stable citrus, 3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadienal and 4,8-dimethyl-3,7-nonadien-2-one are absent.