Odor distinctiveness between enantiomers of linalool: Difference in perception and responses elicited by sensory test and forehead surface potential wave measurement

Chemical Senses

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 77-84

  Sugawara, Yoshiaki ^a   Hara, Chihiro ^a   Aoki, Tadashi ^b   Sugimoto, Naomi ^c   Masujima, Tsutomu ^c  

^a Hiroshima Prefectural Womens Univ   (Japan)

^b Suzugamine Women's College   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL OIL; LAVENDER OIL; LINALOOL;

ADULT; AGITATION; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENANTIOMER; FOREHEAD; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHALATION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; STEREOSPECIFICITY; WORK;

EID: 0033973394     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/25.1.77     Document Type: Article

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