The University of Maryland Medical Centre suggests using citronella, linalool, and geraniol candles. |
These include linalool – a substance also used in perfumes and insecticide – and geraniol, a pale yellow liquid that doubles up as an effective mosquito repellent and gives geranium its distinctive smell. |
The scent of freesia, he explained, is created by combining two simple molecules: beta-ionone and linalool, both synthetics. |
Another compound of this group, linalool, is found in lavender, bergamot and many flowers. |
The smell of orange blossom is made by combining linalool and methyl anthranilate, which smells like Concord grapes. |
Privet Bloom has a rough loveliness and is made, I'm guessing, of the perfumer's basic floral and green molecules: cis-3-hexenol, geraniol, citral, linalool. |