MOLECULE
Named in 1 VERIFIED claim about 1 Atlas entry: Watermelon.
Key odorant · the claim says “contributed more to the aroma than the alcohols”
In fresh juice of five watermelon varieties, the C9 aldehydes (Z)-6-nonenal, (E,Z)-2,6-nonadienal, (E)-2-nonenal and (E,E)-2,4-nonadienal contributed more to the aroma than the alcohols, because of their lower odour thresholds.
Scope: Fresh juice of five varieties from one region; the main volatiles differed between variety groups. CLM-WATERMELON-001 ↗
RTNPCOBSXBGDMO-ARJAWSKDSA-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.
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Permanent identifier smellbook:molecule:z-6-nonenal · Graph record (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). (Z)-6-nonenal (molecule). SmellBook knowledge graph, Strategy Phase 369. smellbook:molecule:z-6-nonenal. https://smellbook.com/molecules/z-6-nonenal
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 369.