Geosmin

Geosmin

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Geosmin

🌿 Scent Profile

Earthy ‘wet soil’ smell – like fresh turned earth or petrichor

⚡ Functionality

Mood Boost

⚗️ Chemistry

Sesquiterpenoid (bicyclic alcohol)

🛡️ Safety

No notable inhalation hazard at low dilution (naturally inhaled after rain). Pure geosmin is extremely strong and can overwhelm senses – used only in trace amounts.

🔬 Scientific Literature

“Our results show for the first time that Vanillin and Cinnemaldehyde are antimutagenic against spontaneous mutations in mammalian (human) cells. These and other data lead us to propose that VAN and CIN may induce DNA damage that elicits recombinational DNA repair, which reduces spontaneous mutations (King et al., 2007)”

ScienceDirect

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