Octanol

Octanol is an eight-carbon alcohol. The name is the chain length (octa = eight). Labs and catalogs usually mean 1-octanol (octan-1-ol). It is a fatty-citrus smell, closer to orange peel oil than to pine sap or fuel.

Outside flower it shows up in frankincense talk and in perfume, flavor, solvent, and antifoam work. Relatives on those lists include 2-octanol and 2-ethylhexanol. Those are neighbors, not a second spelling of the same line unless the report splits them.

Cannabis panels rarely print octanol as a headline terpene. When it appears, treat it as a minor fatty-citrus note and compare it with limonene and other citrus-pine names on the same sheet. A citrus bag name is not this molecule.

Two jars can both list a citrus alcohol and still be different plants. Amounts change by method and sample. One number is one harvest.

Readers who know orange peel or a fatty citrus solvent already have the idea. This page stays with naming and smell, not a body effect.