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What does linalool mean?

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Noun
  1. (chemistry) A monoterpene alcohol found in many essential oils.
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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.

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