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 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "white-floral-teaching-accord",
 "type": "Accord",
 "version": 2,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 8,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "KLE-1",
  "JAS-2"
 ],
 "name": {
  "value": "A white floral, indolic",
  "evidence": "house interpretation",
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": "C",
  "note": "the house’s name for this teaching accord"
 },
 "purpose": "teaching",
 "disclaimer": "A teaching accord for learning: not a Radler formula, not a finished perfume, not safety-assessed; do not make it for skin.",
 "structure": {
  "value": "An indolic white floral: jasmine absolute with its main volatile, benzyl acetate, a fresh jasmonate and a trace of indole.",
  "evidence": "perfumery convention",
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": "the trade’s convention; benzyl acetate’s place in jasmine absolute is documented (JAS-2), indole’s is the jasmine record’s convention constituent"
 },
 "family": {
  "value": "floral (white flowers)",
  "evidence": "perfumery convention",
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": "the trade’s convention"
 },
 "components": [
  {
   "material": "jasmine-absolute",
   "role": {
    "value": "heart",
    "evidence": "documented",
    "source": "KLE-1",
    "where": "docs/sources/KLE-1-kleoff-2022-odorants-in-flow.md:27",
    "quote": "Floral notes, such as rose, jasmine, orange blossom, or lavender, are typically middle notes defining the “heart” of many perfumes",
    "confidence": "A",
    "note": "the review names jasmine among the floral heart notes"
   },
   "teaching_parts": {
    "value": 45,
    "unit": "parts",
    "evidence": "modeled",
    "confidence": "C",
    "note": "teaching proportions, a house interpretation for learning: modeled, not measured, not a formula, not for making"
   },
   "volatility": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "no volatility class on record for jasmine-absolute"
   },
   "identity": {
    "value": "the natural heart",
    "evidence": "perfumery convention",
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": "B",
    "note": "the trade’s convention"
   }
  },
  {
   "molecule": "benzyl-acetate",
   "role": {
    "value": "heart",
    "evidence": "perfumery convention",
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": "B",
    "note": "the trade’s top / heart / base convention for this material"
   },
   "teaching_parts": {
    "value": 30,
    "unit": "parts",
    "evidence": "modeled",
    "confidence": "C",
    "note": "teaching proportions, a house interpretation for learning: modeled, not measured, not a formula, not for making"
   },
   "volatility": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "no volatility class on record for benzyl-acetate"
   },
   "identity": {
    "value": "the main volatile constituent of the jasmine absolute the study analysed",
    "evidence": "documented",
    "source": "JAS-2",
    "where": "docs/sources/JAS-2-yassen-2026-jasminum-volatiles.md:15",
    "quote": "Benzyl acetate was the main volatile constituent in purchased J. grandiflorum concrete and absolute",
    "confidence": "A"
   }
  },
  {
   "molecule": "methyl-dihydrojasmonate",
   "role": {
    "value": "heart",
    "evidence": "documented",
    "source": "KLE-1",
    "where": "docs/sources/KLE-1-kleoff-2022-odorants-in-flow.md:24",
    "quote": "hedione (methyl dihydrojasmonate), … has a fresh, citric and slightly floral scent – but is commonly categorized as a middle note",
    "confidence": "A",
    "note": "the review: \"commonly categorized as a middle note\""
   },
   "teaching_parts": {
    "value": 22,
    "unit": "parts",
    "evidence": "modeled",
    "confidence": "C",
    "note": "teaching proportions, a house interpretation for learning: modeled, not measured, not a formula, not for making"
   },
   "volatility": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "no volatility class on record for methyl-dihydrojasmonate"
   },
   "identity": {
    "value": "a fresh jasmonate to open the flower",
    "evidence": "perfumery convention",
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": "B",
    "note": "the trade’s convention; its fresh, slightly floral scent is documented on the molecule record (KLE-1)"
   }
  },
  {
   "molecule": "indole",
   "role": {
    "value": "trace",
    "evidence": "perfumery convention",
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": "B",
    "note": "the trade’s top / heart / base convention for this material"
   },
   "teaching_parts": {
    "value": 3,
    "unit": "parts",
    "evidence": "modeled",
    "confidence": "C",
    "note": "teaching proportions, a house interpretation for learning: modeled, not measured, not a formula, not for making"
   },
   "volatility": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "no volatility class on record for indole"
   },
   "identity": {
    "value": "the indolic note of jasmine",
    "evidence": "perfumery convention",
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": "B",
    "note": "the component is a named constituent of jasmine absolute (that record’s identity field); the page names indole as “jasmine’s signature molecule”; no GC analysis of jasmine absolute is filed (BLOCKED), so this stays the trade’s convention"
   }
  }
 ],
 "substitutions": [
  {
   "for": "jasmine-absolute",
   "molecule": "benzyl-acetate",
   "value": "Without the absolute: more benzyl acetate with the indole, a reconstruction of its main line and nothing more.",
   "evidence": "inferred",
   "source": "JAS-2",
   "where": "docs/sources/JAS-2-yassen-2026-jasminum-volatiles.md:15",
   "quote": "Benzyl acetate was the main volatile constituent in purchased J. grandiflorum concrete and absolute",
   "confidence": "B",
   "note": "inferred from the study; a reconstruction loses the absolute’s other constituents"
  }
 ],
 "history": [
  "methyl-jasmonate-1962"
 ],
 "fragrances": [],
 "regulations": [
  "eu-2023-1545"
 ],
 "descriptors": [
  "floral",
  "narcotic",
  "animalic",
  "jasmine",
  "fresh",
  "citrus",
  "fecal"
 ],
 "media": [],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/science#accord-building",
  "tool": "/atelier#accord-architect"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "An indolic white floral: jasmine absolute, its benzyl acetate, a fresh jasmonate and a trace of indole.",
  "body": [
   "Indole is the lesson: at a trace it makes the flower heady and alive; at more than a trace it turns animal. The trace here is a teaching part, not a measured one."
  ]
 },
 "teaching_variants": [
  {
   "id": "v1",
   "label": "A trace of indole",
   "kind": "teaching variant, modeled",
   "basis": "the record as written",
   "as_written": true,
   "why": {
    "value": "The white floral as the record writes it: jasmine absolute, its benzyl acetate, a fresh jasmonate and a trace of indole.",
    "evidence": "perfumery convention",
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": "B",
    "note": "the accord record’s structure field (perfumery convention)"
   },
   "regulations": [],
   "history": [],
   "fragrances": []
  },
  {
   "id": "v2",
   "label": "More indole, past a trace",
   "kind": "teaching variant, modeled",
   "basis": "house teaching example",
   "why": {
    "value": "A house teaching example of the record’s own lesson: indole’s words on record are “narcotic at trace levels” and “fecal at high concentration”; here it goes past a trace.",
    "evidence": "house interpretation",
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": "C",
    "note": "a house teaching example; indole’s descriptors are the house’s own reading on its record (no descriptor source is filed), and the version is not a reconstruction of any perfume"
   },
   "regulations": [],
   "history": [],
   "fragrances": [],
   "components": [
    {
     "material": "jasmine-absolute",
     "teaching_parts": {
      "value": 42,
      "unit": "parts",
      "evidence": "modeled",
      "confidence": "C",
      "note": "teaching proportions of a teaching variant, a house interpretation for learning: modeled, not measured, not a formula, not for making"
     }
    },
    {
     "molecule": "benzyl-acetate",
     "teaching_parts": {
      "value": 28,
      "unit": "parts",
      "evidence": "modeled",
      "confidence": "C",
      "note": "teaching proportions of a teaching variant, a house interpretation for learning: modeled, not measured, not a formula, not for making"
     }
    },
    {
     "molecule": "methyl-dihydrojasmonate",
     "teaching_parts": {
      "value": 20,
      "unit": "parts",
      "evidence": "modeled",
      "confidence": "C",
      "note": "teaching proportions of a teaching variant, a house interpretation for learning: modeled, not measured, not a formula, not for making"
     }
    },
    {
     "molecule": "indole",
     "teaching_parts": {
      "value": 10,
      "unit": "parts",
      "evidence": "modeled",
      "confidence": "C",
      "note": "teaching proportions of a teaching variant, a house interpretation for learning: modeled, not measured, not a formula, not for making"
     }
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "v3",
   "label": "Without the absolute",
   "kind": "teaching variant, modeled",
   "basis": "substitution on record",
   "why": {
    "value": "The record’s own substitution: without the absolute, more benzyl acetate with the indole, a reconstruction of its main line and nothing more.",
    "evidence": "inferred",
    "source": "JAS-2",
    "where": "docs/sources/JAS-2-yassen-2026-jasminum-volatiles.md:15",
    "quote": "Benzyl acetate was the main volatile constituent in purchased J. grandiflorum concrete and absolute",
    "confidence": "B",
    "note": "inferred from the study; a reconstruction loses the absolute’s other constituents"
   },
   "regulations": [],
   "history": [],
   "fragrances": [],
   "components": [
    {
     "molecule": "benzyl-acetate",
     "teaching_parts": {
      "value": 75,
      "unit": "parts",
      "evidence": "modeled",
      "confidence": "C",
      "note": "teaching proportions of a teaching variant, a house interpretation for learning: modeled, not measured, not a formula, not for making"
     }
    },
    {
     "molecule": "methyl-dihydrojasmonate",
     "teaching_parts": {
      "value": 22,
      "unit": "parts",
      "evidence": "modeled",
      "confidence": "C",
      "note": "teaching proportions of a teaching variant, a house interpretation for learning: modeled, not measured, not a formula, not for making"
     }
    },
    {
     "molecule": "indole",
     "teaching_parts": {
      "value": 3,
      "unit": "parts",
      "evidence": "modeled",
      "confidence": "C",
      "note": "teaching proportions of a teaching variant, a house interpretation for learning: modeled, not measured, not a formula, not for making"
     }
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}