A process for producing L-menthol in solid form, including the following steps: providing a menthol melt, feeding the melt to a drop former having a rotating, perforated outer drum and a fixed nozzle strip adjacent to the inside of the outer drum, depositing the menthol melt produced by the drop former onto a continuous cooling belt, solidifying the menthol melt during transport on the cooling belt to form L-menthol pellets and taking the pellets off in the region of a deflection drum for the cooling belt.