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nootkatone

Named in 1 VERIFIED claim about 1 Atlas entry: Grapefruit Peel.

Where the evidence names it

Grapefruit Peel

Reported volatile · the claim says “were described as prominent”

Cold-pressed peel oil of redblush grapefruit from Kenya had limonene (91.1%), α-terpinene and α-pinene as the main compounds; nootkatone, α- and β-sinensal and methyl N-methylanthranilate were described as prominent.

Scope: One grapefruit form from one locality; it reports the oil's composition, not a sensory analysis. CLM-GRAPEFRUIT-001 ↗

Identifiers

PubChem
CID 1268142 ((+)-Nootkatone)
Formula
C15H22O
InChIKey
WTOYNNBCKUYIKC-JMSVASOKSA-N
Wikidata
Q417896
ChEBI
CHEBI:81377

Checked against PubChem and Wikidata on 2026-10-05 by an automated identifier check. 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:nootkatone · Graph record (JSON)

Cite as SmellBook. (2026). nootkatone (molecule). SmellBook knowledge graph, dataset release of 2026-10-05. smellbook:molecule:nootkatone. https://smellbook.com/molecules/nootkatone

Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-05 · sha256 d10c2deef978.