MOLECULE
Named in 1 VERIFIED claim about 1 Atlas entry: Fresh Milk.
Linked to the odour · the claim says “milky odour correlated positively with”
Gas chromatography–olfactometry of pasteurised and UHT milks detected 48 aroma-active compounds, 11 of them key, and milky odour correlated positively with γ-dodecalactone and γ-nonanolactone.
Scope: Six commercial pasteurised and UHT milks; the lactone links are correlations, and raw milk was not studied. CLM-MILK-001 ↗
WGPCZPLRVAWXPW-UHFFFAOYSA-NChecked against PubChem and Wikidata on 2026-10-02 (identifier check run 37063263965). Every name SmellBook uses must resolve to the same single PubChem compound.
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:gamma-dodecalactone · Graph record (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). γ-dodecalactone (molecule). SmellBook knowledge graph, Strategy Phase 369. smellbook:molecule:gamma-dodecalactone. https://smellbook.com/molecules/gamma-dodecalactone
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 369.