MOLECULE
Named in 2 VERIFIED claims about 2 Atlas entries: Pine Needles, Basil.
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 ↗
Linked to the odour · the claim says “to a clove-like 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 ↗
GAIBLDCXCZKKJE-RXJOXMPGSA-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:germacrene-d · Graph record (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). germacrene D (molecule). SmellBook knowledge graph, Strategy Phase 369. smellbook:molecule:germacrene-d. https://smellbook.com/molecules/germacrene-d
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 369.