Pulegone

Pulegone is a monoterpene ketone with a minty, camphor, pennyroyal smell. People search pulegone and pulegone terpene. It is not menthol and not eucalyptol. Menthol is a different mint alcohol. Eucalyptol is the eucalyptus-leaf ether. Pulegone is the sharper pennyroyal-camphor ketone.

Plant lists start with pennyroyal and continue through some mint-oil talks. That is why the word reads as mint-chest even when a cannabis panel only prints a trace. Fragrance writing uses the same sharp mint. Cooks and herbalists already know pennyroyal as a strong mint cousin, which is how most readers first place the name.

On cannabis COAs pulegone is rare as a headline. If a sheet prints it, treat it as a minor mint-camphor line and compare it with eucalyptol, borneol, and camphor on the same panel. A mint note on a menu is not this molecule at a given percent. Two jars can both mention mint and still not share parents.

Pulegone sits in the same cool-mint conversation as camphor and eucalyptol, but the pennyroyal edge is the tell. When a panel stacks those names, read each line separately instead of collapsing them into one mint word.

Pennyroyal tea talk and mint-candy talk are how people learn the smell. Neither one is a printed lab line. Amounts change by cut, grow, and method. One harvest is one snapshot.

Nearby aroma pages: eucalyptol, camphor, and borneol.