What linalool is

The lavender terpene, listed on far fewer strains than the big three.

Strains listing it

347

Average listed THC

21.1%

Aroma

Lavender

Also found in

lavender, hops

Linalool is common to lavender, and it also occurs in hop essential oils. In our catalogue it is listed on roughly a tenth as many strains as myrcene, limonene or caryophyllene.

Lavender oil is a popular anxiolytic, and studies in mice found inhaled linalool sedating. One human study, cited in a 2011 review in the British Journal of Pharmacology, found that patients used less morphine after inhaling lavender oil. Whether linalool shapes the effects of a cannabis product has not been established in people.

Its scarcity is useful in itself: a listing that names linalool is a less generic signal than one naming the near-universal trio.

Linalool in our catalogue

347 published strains list linalool: 72 indica (21%), 261 hybrid (75%) and 14 sativa (4%), averaging 21.1% listed THC. The flavour notes they carry most often are sweet, berry, vanilla, dough and fruity.

Counts are computed from our published strain catalogue at page load. Terpene listings describe a cultivar’s reported profile rather than an assay of any particular batch. The idea that terpene content shapes the felt effects of cannabis, the “entourage effect”, remains unproven in people, and nothing here should be read as a medical claim. For adults 19+.

Sources: Russo (2011), Taming THC, British Journal of Pharmacology; Surendran et al. (2021), Myrcene, Frontiers in Nutrition.