Process for producing (3S)-I-menthyl 3-hydroxybutyrate and sensate composition

摘要

The present invention provides a cooling component or sensate component which does not have undesirable stimulus feeling, bitterness and the like and is excellent in the persistence of refresh-feeling and cool-feeling, a sensate composition which comprises the same, and various products that comprise said sensate composition. The present invention relates to a cooling agent comprising (3S)-1-menthyl 3-hydroxybutyrate represented by the following formula (I)