{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "medicinal",
 "type": "OdorDescriptor",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 5,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "KLE-1"
 ],
 "term": {
  "value": "medicinal",
  "evidence": "perfumery convention",
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": "the trade’s shared vocabulary; the word as the records and sources use it"
 },
 "definition": {
  "value": "The smell of remedies and antiseptics, as of thymol.",
  "evidence": "house interpretation",
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": "C",
  "note": "the house’s own definition, written for this vocabulary"
 },
 "family": {
  "value": "a quality, not a family",
  "evidence": "house interpretation",
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": "C",
  "note": "a quality word used across families, so no family is given"
 },
 "synonyms": [
  "more medicinal",
  "sweet-medicinal"
 ],
 "related": [
  "sharp"
 ],
 "carriers": [
  {
   "molecule": "linalool",
   "as_used": "more medicinal",
   "evidence": "house interpretation",
   "source": null,
   "where": "radlerboutique.html:9320",
   "confidence": "C",
   "note": "the house essay’s words, set against linalyl acetate; no descriptor source is filed"
  },
  {
   "name": "thymol, from thyme (the review; no Molecule record)",
   "as_used": "sweet-medicinal",
   "evidence": "documented",
   "source": "KLE-1",
   "where": "docs/sources/KLE-1-kleoff-2022-odorants-in-flow.md:54",
   "quote": "One of the main ingredients of thyme is thymol (41) which has a sweet-medicinal and warm odor",
   "confidence": "A"
  }
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/science#fragrance-mind"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Medicinal: the smell of remedies and antiseptics, as of thymol.",
  "body": [
   "On record here, the word is carried by linalool, thymol, from thyme. Each carrier says who uses the word and on what evidence: a source, the trade’s convention or the house’s own reading."
  ]
 }
}