Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 566.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, perfume and flavor oils and in propylene glycol.
Very mild and delicate, sweet oily odor, slowly developing a floral fresh green note, reminiscent of certain notes from Muguet.
Its flavor is hardly enjoyed unless the material is incorporated in a flavor formulation. It will lend richness and stability and soft background to many fruit types, such as apricot, banana, berry, cherry, citrus, gooseberry, melon, peach, raspberry, strawberry.
Farnesol forms an excellent background note and blender in the delicate floral such as Muguet, Lilac, etc. or in the balsamic types, Oriental fragrances, Chypres etc. It combines the softest woody notes of Orris with the sweet and balsamic floral notes of Muguet, Rose, Magnolia, Acacia, etc. It blends excellently with Ylang Ylang, Cassie, Rose, Violet, Neroli, Cyclamen, etc. and it is an almost necessary ingredient in the so-called 'Lindenblossom' type fragrance.
Produced from (synthetic) : from Acetylene via Methylbutynol - Methylheptenone - Dehydrolinalool - Linalool - Geranyl acetone - Dehydronerolidol - Nerolidol - Farnesol. Or from natural Nerolidol from Cabreuva oil: by treatment with Acetic anhydride to Farnesyl acetate. Saponification yields Farnesol.
| Category | Kind | Max % | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category 1 | Max % | 0.21% | — | DOC |
| Category 2 | Max % | 0.062% | — | DOC |
| Category 3 | Max % | 1.2% | — | DOC |
| Category 4 | Max % | 1.2% | — | DOC |
| Category 5A | Max % | 0.29% | — | DOC |
| Category 5B | Max % | 0.29% | — | DOC |
| Category 5C | Max % | 0.29% | — | DOC |
| Category 5D | Max % | 0.29% | — | DOC |
| Category 6 | Max % | 0.68% | — | DOC |
| Category 7A | Max % | 2.4% | — | DOC |
| Category 7B | Max % | 2.4% | — | DOC |
| Category 8 | Max % | 0.12% | — | DOC |
| Category 9 | Max % | 2.3% | — | DOC |
| Category 10A | Max % | 8.1% | — | DOC |
| Category 10B | Max % | 8.1% | — | DOC |
| Category 11A | Max % | 4.5% | — | DOC |
| Category 11B | Max % | 4.5% | — | DOC |
| Category 12 | No restriction | — | No Restriction | DOC |
Compliance-support only. Values resolved from the current IFRA corpus; each row cites the document excerpt it came from. Not a substitute for a qualified safety assessor.
Natural complex substances (NCSs) in which this material typically occurs.
| NCS | Botanical | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| Sandalwood oil, Australian | Santalum spicata (R.Br.) A.DC. | 11% |
| Orange flower oil, bitter (neroli and neroli bigarade) | Citrus aurantium L. spp. Amara Link | 8% |
| Ambrette Seed Absolute | Hibiscus abelmoschus L. | 5% |
| Ylang, Ylang oil, terpene-free | Cananga odorata (Lam.) Hook. f. &Thomson oil (forma genuine Steenis) | 2.5% |
| Cananga Oil | Cananga odorata (Lam.) Hook. f. & Thomson (forma macrophylla Steenis) | 2% |
| Arnica absolute | Arnica montana L. | 1.2% |
| Palmarosa oil | Cymbopogon martinii (Roxb.) Wats | 1% |
| Rose oil | Rosa x damascena Mill. | 1% |
| Sandalwood oil | Santalum album L. | 0.7% |
| Sandalwood oil, New Caledonian | Santalum austrocaledonicum Vieill | 0.7% |
| Jasmine sambac absolute | Jasminum sambac (L.) Aiton | 0.6% |
| Calamus Oil | Acorus calamus L. | 0.5% |
| Tuberose Absolute | Poliantes tuberosa L. | 0.3% |
| Baccharis dracunculifolia oil | Baccharis dracunculifolia | 0.2% |
| Cinnamon bark extract | Cinnamomum zeylanicum Blume | 0.12% |
| Cabreuva oil | Myrocarpus frondosus Fr. Allem | 0.1% |
| Gardenia tahitensis oil | Gardenia tahitensis DC. | 0.1% |
| Yarrow oil | Achillea millefolium L. | 0.1% |
| Artemisia arborescens extract | Artemisia arborescens L. | 0.1% |
| Cinnamon bark oil, Laos | Cinnamomum loureiroi Nees | 0.01% |