CLM-INCENSECEDAR-001 · VERIFIED
Aroma extract dilution analysis of incense cedar wood, commonly used for pencils, detected more than 60 odorous substances, mainly terpenes, fatty-acid degradation products and phenolic compounds, and found that thymoquinone has a pencil-like odour.
One wood sample of Calocedrus decurrens; other woods called cedar differ, and pencil shavings were not studied directly.
The statement the claim rests on was found word for word in the abstract fetched from the named service, and an editor read the full abstract against every part of the claim. Abstract from Europe PMC (ebi.ac.uk/europepmc), check run 36955913407.
active · reviewed 2026-10-02 · corrections 0
Linda Schreiner, Helene M. Loos & Andrea Buettner
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
DOI 10.1007/s00216-017-0314-xPermanent identifier smellbook:claim:odorants-of-incense-cedar-pencil-wood · Graph record (JSON)
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 349.