Coriander seed oil smells nothing like the leaf, which people either love or hate. The seed gives a sweet, warm, slightly woody oil that is six to eight tenths linalool. That is the same compound that softens lavender, which is why coriander reads as calming rather than herby. Flow cytometry showed linalool breaking open bacterial membranes, killing them quickly.^[1] It also stopped Acinetobacter baumannii, a drug-resistant hospital bacterium, from sticking together into biofilms.^[2]