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δ-3-carene

Named in 2 VERIFIED claims about 2 Atlas entries: Pine Needles, Black Pepper.

Where the evidence names it

Pine Needles

Major component · the claim says “contained high percentages of”

Essential oils from the needles and green cones of four pine species contained high percentages of α-pinene, (E)-caryophyllene, limonene, germacrene D, myrcene and δ-3-carene.

Scope: Needle and cone oils of four Pinus species from one region, reported together; composition, not odour potency. CLM-PINENEEDLE-001 ↗

Black Pepper

Major component · the claim says “dominated by”

Essential oils of black pepper fruits from Madagascar and Brazil were dominated by α-pinene, sabinene, β-pinene, δ-3-carene, limonene and β-caryophyllene, and their relative amounts grouped by origin.

Scope: Composition of hydrodistilled essential oils, not the odour potency of each compound; origin and processing change the profile. CLM-PEPPER-001 ↗

Identifiers

PubChem
CID 26049 (3-Carene)
Formula
C10H16
InChIKey
BQOFWKZOCNGFEC-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Wikidata
Q19414
ChEBI
CHEBI:35661

Checked against PubChem and Wikidata on 2026-10-02 (identifier check run 37063263965). Every name SmellBook uses must resolve to the same single PubChem compound.

WHAT THIS MEANS

SmellBook lists a molecule only where a VERIFIED claim names it, in the role and scope that claim states. A molecule reported in a smell's evidence is not the whole smell: most smells come from many compounds together, and the studies measured particular samples, such as one cultivar, an essential oil or a cooked product.

Permanent identifier smellbook:molecule:delta-3-carene · Graph record (JSON)

Cite as SmellBook. (2026). δ-3-carene (molecule). SmellBook knowledge graph, Strategy Phase 369. smellbook:molecule:delta-3-carene. https://smellbook.com/molecules/delta-3-carene

Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 369.