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Indoor air / Measured in people or real products

In week-long air measurements across 11 European cities, the scent chemicals limonene and alpha-pinene were the compounds most concentrated in homes compared with workplaces (about 4x), attributed to perfumes, cleaning and fragranced products.

Strong evidence: Source attribution by the authors, not measured per product.

Source: Geiss 2011, Atmospheric Environment Link to this fact

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