geranioln.
/dʒəˈreɪnɪɒl/ Chemistry.
A colourless oil with a fragrance of roses that is present in many essential oils (as geranium oil and rose oil) and is used extensively in perfumery; it is an open-chain primary alcohol of the terpene series, C10H18O.
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1871 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 24 261 By repeated fractional distillation..a liquid was obtained..called by the author geraniol.
1906 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 90 i. 442 The citronella oil..contained 32·7 per cent. of geraniol and 55·3 per cent. of citronellal.
1923 Nature 29 Dec. 952/1 Of active principles, australol, geraniol, citral, and piperitol gave coefficients of 22·5, 21, 19·5, and 13 respectively.
1949 E. Guenther Essent. Oils II. 173 Geraniol serves extensively in the perfume, cosmetic, soap, and flavor industries.
1971 Sci. Amer. May 6/2 Chemical stereoisomers, whose molecules are mirror-images of one another, often taste and smell different from one another. For example, geraniol smells like roses while its stereoisomer smells like fresh oil.
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