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White spirit is a fairly narrow cut product from refining crude oil. It is mainly straight and branched chain saturated alkanes.'Odourless' versions have very low levels of (smelly) aromatics. White spirit has limited solvency.
Turpentine was distilled from (pine) tree roots, and had a distinctive smell, from its constituent terpenes. It had greater solvency than White Spirit.