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The Role of Terpines in Aromatherapy
There are a lot of aromatic compounds in terms of smell, aroma compounds. They're actually the single largest class of compounds found in essential oils. These molecules are easily able to turn into gas and then once they've turned into gaseous molecules in the air, that basically means they're easy easily moving around in the air around us. And if they smell good to us, we interpret it positively.
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