Terpene Library
Learn about the aromatic compounds that shape each strain
Eucalyptol is the cold you feel at the back of your nose from a eucalyptus leaf or a strong chest rub. Tea tree, bay, sage and cardamom carry it too. In cannabis it's uncommon and unmistakable — a cooling note that reads almost like menthol.
Walk into a pine forest and the first thing that hits you is pinene. It's the most common terpene in the natural world — not just conifers but rosemary, basil, dill, parsley. In a jar it reads sharp and green, the smell of something just cut.
Terpinolene is the hard one to pin down, because it doesn't smell like a single thing. There's apple in it, and lilac, and something sharper underneath closer to nutmeg or cumin. It's the terpene that makes a strain smell complicated rather than simply fruity or piney.
Valencene is named after the Valencia orange, and that is exactly what it smells like — sweet orange, not the sharp lemon of limonene. Tangerines and grapefruit carry it too. In a jar it's the difference between citrus that smells like fruit and citrus that smells like cleaning product.