Camphor

Camphor is the sharp, cool, woody smell most people already know from a medicine chest or an old closet. Think menthol and dry wood, not mint candy and not fresh pine needles.

The name comes from the camphor tree. Rosemary-family plants get mentioned with it too. Household products used the word for so long that most people recognize camphor before they ever look at a flower report. On those reports it is usually a small line when it shows up at all. Many reports never list it.

Camphene is the easy mix-up. That word looks almost the same on a page. The smell is damper, more like fir wood after rain. If a report lists both, they are two different compounds, not two spellings of one smell.

Smelling camphor does not mean the plant is an OG or a Haze. Two different packs can both list it. The chest-rub memory is only a way to place the scent. It is not a use instruction and not a percent.

When camphor does appear, treat it as a background cool-wood note, not the main character of the jar. Growers and labs see different amounts from harvest to harvest. Fenchol is another cool-wood name that sits near camphor in smell, without being the same compound.

A cool medicinal smell on a menu is not the same as a printed camphor line. Trust the report in front of you, not the marketing sentence on the bag.