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Geraniol

Geraniol is an acyclic monoterpene alcohol and, with citronellol, one of the two largest constituents of the damask-rose oils that have been profiled; it is also in the absolute.

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An engraved drawing of the geraniol model: hatched atoms joined by ruled bonds, the hydrogens left out.

molecule

The geraniol molecule

A computed 3D conformer , modeled, not a photograph of a molecule. PubChem CID 637566.

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PubChem’s computed 3D conformer of geraniol (CID 637566, conformer 0009BA7E00000002): the shape a computer model gives the molecule, not an experimental structure and not a picture of a real molecule. Ball and stick: 10 carbon, 1 oxygen; the 18 hydrogen atoms are left out for clarity. The balls are drawn smaller than the atoms’ real reach; a double bond is two sticks, side by side.

In the room
scaled so that one ångström is 4 cm (about 400 million times life size): 17.5 cm tall, 38.1 cm across
Atoms
10 carbon, 1 oxygen · 10 bonds between them
Colours
carbon: ink sepia-2; oxygen: rose highlight; bonds: brass. Colour is a convention here and never carries the meaning alone: the letters on the drawing and this list say which atom is which.
Source
PubChem, CID 637566 (National Center for Biotechnology Information), its computed 3D conformer as filed on this record
Licence
PubChem’s data are public (NCBI); the model and its drawing were made for this site from those coordinates

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The record

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Name
geraniol
documented

Geraniol

PUBCHEM-637566 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 637566, Geraniol · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

CAS
106-24-1
documented

verified: the CAS is among the CID's PubChem synonyms

PUBCHEM-637566 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 637566, Geraniol · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

PubChem CID
637566
documented

PUBCHEM-637566 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 637566, Geraniol · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Formula
C10H18O
documented

PUBCHEM-637566 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 637566, Geraniol · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Molecular weight
154.25
documented

PUBCHEM-637566 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 637566, Geraniol · read 2026-09-27

g/mol, as PubChem states it

confidence A

IUPAC name
(2E)-3,7-dimethylocta-2,6-dien-1-ol
documented

PUBCHEM-637566 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 637566, Geraniol · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

SMILES
CC(=CCC/C(=C/CO)/C)C
documented

PUBCHEM-637566 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 637566, Geraniol · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

InChIKey
GLZPCOQZEFWAFX-JXMROGBWSA-N
documented

PUBCHEM-637566 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 637566, Geraniol · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Odour threshold
1.1 µg/kg in water (orthonasal odour detection threshold in water, determined by the method of Czerny et al. 2008, Eur Food Res Technol 228:265–273, as the database states)
measured

OT-1 · Kreissl et al. (2022). Leibniz-LSB@TUM Odorant Database, Version 1.2 · read 2026-09-30

the retronasal threshold in the same study is 2.5 µg/kg (OT-1)

confidence A

Descriptors
rose-like, citrus-like
documented

geraniol | CAS 106-24-1 | Odor quality: rose-like, citrus-like

OT-1 · Kreissl et al. (2022). Leibniz-LSB@TUM Odorant Database, Version 1.2 · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Volatility class
not on record
not on record

the house’s volatility table has no entry for geraniol

Regulation
documented

EU-2009-1223: each record above quotes its entry.

3D structure
PubChem computed 3D conformer · 29 atoms, 28 bonds
modeled

PUBCHEM-637566 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 637566, Geraniol · read 2026-09-27

PubChem’s computed 3D conformer: a model, drawn schematically, not an experimental structure (the house’s molecules data note)

confidence A

Wikidata
Q410836
documented

P662 PubChem CID: 637566

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the item states PubChem CID 637566 (P662) and the record’s InChIKey (P235); found by the statement search haswbstatement:P662=637566

confidence A

Odeuropa
EOKG concept
documented

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ODEUROPA-1 · Lisena, P., Ehrhart, T., Troncy, R · read 2026-09-30

the EOKG concept “geraniol” states owl:sameAs Q410836 and the record’s CAS (wdt:P231)

confidence A

Occurs in
In teaching accords

Sources

  1. PUBCHEM-637566 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 637566, Geraniol ((2E)-3,7-dimethylocta-2,6-dien-1-ol). National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S. National Library of Medicine; live database, read 2026-09-27 through the PUG REST endpoints listed in the house’s molecules data. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/637566 · read 2026-09-27 · public domain (US government work, NCBI/NLM); acknowledgement requested , cite PubChem
  2. OT-1 · Kreissl J, Mall V, Steinhaus P, Steinhaus M. Leibniz-LSB@TUM Odorant Database, Version 1.2. Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich: Freising, Germany, 2022. www.leibniz-lsb.de/en/databases/leibniz-lsbtum-o… · read 2026-09-30 · free of charge; scientific use encouraged with full acknowledgement; systematic download or reproduction needs written permission (quoted, not reproduced)
  3. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0
  4. ODEUROPA-1 · Lisena, P., Ehrhart, T., Troncy, R. European Olfactory Knowledge Graph (EOKG), Odeuropa project. Zenodo, 2024. doi:10.5281/zenodo.10709703. SPARQL endpoint https://data.odeuropa.eu/repositories/odeuropa, read 2026-09-30. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10709703 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0

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this record as data: /data/molecule/geraniol.json · version 6 · updated 2026-10-01 · confidence A