Substituted cyclohexenyl-ethanol derivatives and their use as smoke-flavour modifying agents

摘要

In a method for the production of a smoke-flavour modifying agent, beta ionone is contacted with a fungal culture to effect transformation of at least a proportion of the beta -ionone to a product comprising at least one compound of the group consisting of Compound A, Compound B and Compound C, of formulae The invention also includes the smoke-flavour modifying agent so produced and/or smoking a material or article comprising the said agent or smoking article produced.