Guaiol

Guaiol is a woody sesquiterpene alcohol. The smell talk is tea-tree wood, pine-wood, or a dry rose-wood, not lemon and not diesel. People search guaiol and guaiol terpene.

Guaiac wood and related heartwood oils are how the name became familiar. That is a placing note. It is not a cooking recipe and not a medical line.

On cannabis panels guaiol is often small. Wood-spice sheets may list it near humulene or eudesmol-type names. A wood or pine brand on a bag does not prove guaiol is present.

Two jars can both print a wood alcohol and still be different plants. Treat a lone guaiol number as a minor wood line, not a bouquet.

Guaiol is sometimes spelled guajol in older references. Chemists place it in the guaiane group of sesquiterpenes, named after the guaiac tree. Outside cannabis, guaiac wood oil and the wood oil of cypress pine are the usual places it is described.

On a lab sheet guaiol sits in the sesquiterpene part of the list, often near caryophyllene, humulene, and bisabolol. It is not guaiacol, a smoky-smelling phenol with a similar name. A line that prints guaiol is not printing guaiacol, and it is not another name for cedrol, a different wood alcohol.

Nearby names on this library: humulene for wood-spice, and the pinene page for sharper pine resin.