MOLECULE
Named in 1 VERIFIED claim about 1 Atlas entry: Jasmine.
Major component · the claim says “the most abundant compounds”
In volatiles emitted by living Jasminum sambac flowers, α-farnesene, linalool and benzyl acetate were the most abundant compounds, and blocking α-farnesene production also diminished the flowers' sweet scent.
Scope: One J. sambac cultivar across flowering stages; it reports abundance, not odour potency, and other jasmine species differ. CLM-JASMINE-001 ↗
QUKGYYKBILRGFE-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:benzyl-acetate · Graph record (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). benzyl acetate (molecule). SmellBook knowledge graph, Strategy Phase 369. smellbook:molecule:benzyl-acetate. https://smellbook.com/molecules/benzyl-acetate
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 369.