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Table 3 Some key chemotypes that correlate with each cluster, along with their odor descriptions

From: Chemical profiling and clustering of various dried cannabis flowers revealed by volatilomics and chemometric processing

Cluster

Cultivar

Key chemotype

Odor descriptiona

I

WC, SH, HOG, BG, PM, GF, AH, NL, GDP, GCP, and DDF

Limonene

Pine, herbal, and peppery

γ-Amorphene

-

γ-Eudesmol

Waxy, and sweet

β-Fenchol

-

β-Pinene

Cooling, woody, piney, and turpentine-like with a fresh minty

II

WW, BB, and JH

Terpinolene

Fresh, woody, sweet, pine, and citrus

β-phellandrene

Mint, and terpentine

Cis-Geraniol

Sweet, floral, fruity, rose, waxy, and citrus

p-cymen-8-ol

Sweet, fruity, cherry, coumarin, floral, camphoreous, and cooling

o-cymene

-

III

SW-OG, PP, and CPK

Selina-3,7(11)-diene

-

Linalool

Citrus, orange, floral, terpy, waxy, and rose

L-α-Terpineol

pine terpene lilac citrus woody, and floral

cis-Linalool oxide

Earthy, floral, sweet, and woody

δ-Selinene

-

IV

FD

Humulene

Woody, Oceanic-watery, and spicy-clove

10-epi-γ-Eudesmol

Sweet, woody, and floral

Eremophila-1(10),11-diene

-

β-Caryophyllene

Sweet, woody, spice, clove and dry

β-Gurjunene

-

V

SK

Eucalyptol

minty

β-Eudesmol

Woody, and green

Di-epi-1,10-cubenol

-

n-Hexyl butanoate

-

α-Eudesmol

-

  1. aOdor description obtained from http://www.thegoodscentscompany.com