VERIFIEDPRIMARY
Response of Pediculus humanus capitis (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae) to Volatiles of Whole and Individual Components of the Human Scalp
F. G. Galassi et al.
DOI 10.1093/jme/tjx243CLM-HAIR-001 · VERIFIED
Main volatiles collected from the human scalp
Volatiles collected from the human scalp, which the authors call human scalp odour, included 24 identified compounds, the main ones being nonanal, sulcatone, geranylacetone and palmitic acid.
Volatiles from the human scalp, which the Hair entry includes, collected in a study of what attracts head lice; the abstract does not say whether they were taken from the hair or the skin, or how many people were sampled; composition only, with no assessment of how it smells.
The statement the claim rests on was found word for word in the abstract fetched from the named service, and an editor read the full abstract against every part of the claim. Abstract from Europe PMC (ebi.ac.uk/europepmc).
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CANONICAL PROFILES1
MOLECULES THIS CLAIM NAMES4
- geranylacetone · Major component · the claim says “the main ones being”
- 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one (named sulcatone in the claim) · Major component · the claim says “the main ones being”
- nonanal · Major component · the claim says “the main ones being”
- palmitic acid · Major component · the claim says “the main ones being”
Each molecule page shows the other entries whose evidence names it. A molecule named here is not the whole smell.
SUPPORTING SOURCES1
Permanent identifier smellbook:claim:main-volatiles-collected-from-the-human-scalp · Graph record (JSON)
Dataset history Not yet in a dataset release; it will appear in the next one.