SIMPLY PUT:
Terpenes are the essential oils made by all plants. Terpenes are what give each flower, herb, fruit, and extract it’s own unique scent, flavor and effect.
Everyday, everywhere you go, you encounter terpenes, they make life exciting. When you zest a lemon..you smell terpenes. Open a jar full of herb…what you are smelling is the terpenes. Stop and smell the roses? More like stop and smell the terpenes.
While there is so much you CAN learn, what you NEED to know is that terpenes are scented molecules that when inhaled, applied to the skin, or consumed affect how we feel.
A BIT MORE COMPLEX:
Terpenes are the most basic essential oils produced in nature; in total over 30,000 have been identified. Plants, animals, microbes, and fungi produce terpenes to carry out necessary biological functions. This diverse class of compounds serve as vitamins, hormones, pheromones, and as part of the immune system.
One way to think of terpenes is as building blocks which come together to make complex essential oils, these building blocks are created by plants and combined in countless ways in order to produce full plant essential oils like Lavender, Rose, Sandalwood, Kush, Tangie, and Durban Poison.
Though scent is what they are known for, terpenes play an equally important role in influencing how we will feel when we consume an herb, fruit, or flower. This is because they act synergistically with other botanical compounds and our own native hormones – acting on the same neurons in the brain; this phenomenon is known as the entourage effect.
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