2021 Volume 52 Issue 4 Pages 240-243
As Japanese family keeps their dogs mainly in a house, they have a lot of opportunities for feeling the natural dog odor in daily life. The characteristic volatiles of the used pet-sheet and the cleaner pack filled with hair of dogs of corgi type were collected by dynamic headspace sampling method, and their samples were analyzed with GC/MS and GC-olfactometry experiment. Two strong odor active compounds, 3-methylbutyric acid and 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, were estimated to be the major malodorous constituents in those samples and both were successfully to detect with GC/MS. This was the first report on a dog smell.
