Use of hydrogenated derivatives of 2,6,6-trimethyl-cyclohexene derivatives in augmenting or enhancing the aroma or taste of smoking tobacco and smoking tobacco articles

A smoking tobacco article comprising a cylindrically shaped body of smoking tobacco, a wrapper surrounding the length of said cylindrically shaped body and a filter adhered to one end of said cylindrically shaped body, and in intimate contact with a least said filter said cylindrically shaped body of tobacco and said wrapper, at least one substance selected from the group consisting of:

• (i) the compound having the structure:
• ##STR99## (ii) the compound having the structure:
• ##STR100## (iii) a mixture of compounds having the structures:
• ##STR101## (iv) a mixture of compounds having the structures:
• ##STR102##

A smoking tobacco article comprising a cylindrically shaped body of smoking tobacco;

• a wrapper surrounding the length of said cylindrically shaped body;
• and a filter adhered to one end of said cylindrically shaped body of smoking tobacco;
• and in intimate contact with at least one of said filter, said wrapper or said cylindrically shaped body of smoking tobacco, a product produced according to the process comprising the steps of admixing hydrogen with at least one compound defined by the structure:
• ##STR103## wherein in the cyclohexene moiety one of the dashed lines is a carbon-carbon double bond and the other of the dashed lines is either a carbon-carbon double bond or a carbon-carbon single bond, said reaction taking place in the presence of a suspended palladium catalyst.