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CLM-LILAC-001 · VERIFIED

Characteristic scent compounds of lilac flowers

Headspace analysis of fresh Syringa oblata flowers found the four lilac aldehydes and four lilac alcohols to be the characteristic components of their scent, alongside abundant volatiles such as α-pinene, linalool and the farnesenes.

SCOPE

One lilac species, in white and purple varieties; composition, not odour potency.

SUPPORT CHECK

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 37117031550.

LIFECYCLE

active · reviewed 2026-10-02 · corrections 0

LilacSB-0064↗

Permanent identifier smellbook:claim:characteristic-scent-compounds-of-lilac-flowers · Graph record (JSON)

Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 389.