Terpene Science

In Japan, they call it shinrin-yoku — forest bathing. It is not exercise. It is not hiking. It is the simple act of breathing forest air, and it has been prescribed by Japanese physicians since the 1980s as preventive medicine. Decades of peer-reviewed research now confirm what traditional cultures understood intuitively: the volatile organic compounds […]

Linalool smells like lavender because it is lavender — or rather, it is the molecule that gives lavender its scent. It is also found in over 200 plant species, including basil, birch, coriander, and cannabis. For centuries, lavender has been used as a folk remedy for anxiety, insomnia, and nervous conditions. Modern pharmacology has spent

In 2008, a team led by Jürg Gertsch at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that should have rewritten how we think about spice racks, salad dressings, and cannabis. They demonstrated that beta-caryophyllene (BCP) — a terpene found in black pepper, cloves,