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camphor

Named in 2 VERIFIED claims about 2 Atlas entries: Rosemary, Sage.

Where the evidence names it

Rosemary

Reported volatile · the claim says “also present”

Rosemary essential oils from six countries were dominated by α-pinene and 1,8-cineole, with verbenone, borneol, camphor and limonene also present, and at least five chemotypes were distinguished.

Scope: Essential oil composition, not odour potency; proportions vary with origin and chemotype. CLM-ROSEMARY-001 ↗

Sage

Major component · the claim says “dominated by”

Essential oil of wild and cultivated sage was dominated by cis-thujone, camphor and 1,8-cineole, in proportions that differed between wild and cultivated plants.

Scope: Salvia officinalis oils from one study; composition, not odour potency, and growing conditions such as shading shift the proportions. CLM-SAGE-001 ↗

Identifiers

PubChem
CID 2537 (Camphor)
Formula
C10H16O
InChIKey
DSSYKIVIOFKYAU-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Wikidata
No single Wikidata item carries this InChIKey.
ChEBI
Not recorded.

Checked against PubChem and Wikidata on 2026-10-02 (identifier check run 37063263965). 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:camphor · Graph record (JSON)

Cite as SmellBook. (2026). camphor (molecule). SmellBook knowledge graph, Strategy Phase 369. smellbook:molecule:camphor. https://smellbook.com/molecules/camphor

Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 369.