Skatole

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Skatole (also spelled skatol) or 3-methylindole is an organic compound belonging to the indole family. It occurs naturally in the feces of mammals and birds and is the primary contributor to fecal odor. At high to moderate concentrations, its aroma is described as "animal, fecal, naphthyl, civet".

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Skatole”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Dschanz, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.