MOLECULE
Named in 3 VERIFIED claims about 3 Atlas entries: Basil, Pine Resin, Black Pepper.
Linked to the odour · the claim says “to a piquant smell”
A sensory and volatilomics comparison of nine basil types linked eugenol and germacrene D to a clove-like smell, and β-pinene and γ-cadinene to a piquant smell.
Scope: Correlations across nine Ocimum types; association rather than proof of cause, and basil chemotypes differ widely. CLM-BASIL-001 ↗
Major component · the claim says “consisted mainly of”
Pine oleoresin consists of turpentine and rosin; in one pine species the volatile turpentine fraction consisted mainly of α-pinene and β-pinene.
Scope: A methods study of two pine species' resin products; composition, not odour, and the rosin acids are not volatile. CLM-PINERESIN-001 ↗
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 ↗
WTARULDDTDQWMU-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:beta-pinene · Graph record (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). β-pinene (molecule). SmellBook knowledge graph, Strategy Phase 369. smellbook:molecule:beta-pinene. https://smellbook.com/molecules/beta-pinene
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 369.