A softer, more leathery and woody cousin of ylang-ylang. Cananga oil opens with a warm, sweet floral note tinged with green and slightly rubbery facets, drying down to a balsamic, faintly spicy woodiness. Less creamy and less fruity than true ylang extra, with more tenacity and a coarser character.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 89.
Java cananga oil is a yellow to orange-yellow or slightly greenish-yellow, somewhat viscous liquid.
Cananga oil has a sweet-floral, balsamic and tenacious odor. The initial notes are woody-leathery with a fresh-floral undertone, a characteristic combination.
Cananga oil is useful in soap perfumery and for the popular leathery notes in men’s fragrances where it combines well with castoreum, calamus, birch tar oil rectified, cyclamal, creosol, copaiba oil, isobutyl cinnamate, isoeugenol, labdanum products, guaiacwood oil, nerol, para-cresyl salicylate, oakmoss products, etc. and with fougére bases, violet bases, etc.
The oil is water-distilled from the flowers of Cananga odorata (forma macrophylla) in the northern and western parts of Java (Indonesia).
| Category | Kind | Max % | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category 1 | Max % | 0.13% | — | DOC |
| Category 2 | Max % | 0.039% | — | DOC |
| Category 3 | Max % | 0.78% | — | DOC |
| Category 4 | Max % | 0.73% | — | DOC |
| Category 5A | Max % | 0.18% | — | DOC |
| Category 5B | Max % | 0.18% | — | DOC |
| Category 5C | Max % | 0.18% | — | DOC |
| Category 5D | Max % | 0.18% | — | DOC |
| Category 6 | Max % | 0.43% | — | DOC |
| Category 7A | Max % | 1.5% | — | DOC |
| Category 7B | Max % | 1.5% | — | DOC |
| Category 8 | Max % | 0.077% | — | DOC |
| Category 9 | Max % | 1.4% | — | DOC |
| Category 10A | Max % | 5.1% | — | DOC |
| Category 10B | Max % | 5.1% | — | DOC |
| Category 11A | Max % | 2.8% | — | DOC |
| Category 11B | Max % | 2.8% | — | 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.
Restricted IFRA-standard materials typically present in this NCS at the listed concentrations.
| Constituent | CAS | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| Benzyl benzoate | 120-51-4 | 4.2% |
| Cinnamyl Acetate | 103-54-8 | 4.2% |
| Farnesol | 4602-84-0 | 2% |
| Geraniol | 106-24-1 | 0.7% |
| Isoeugenol | 97-54-1 | 0.5% |
| Benzyl Salicylate | 118-58-1 | 0.4% |
| Eugenol | 97-53-0 | 0.4% |
| alpha-Cedrene | 469-61-4 | 0.4% |
| Methyl Eugenol | 93-15-2 | 0.2% |
| Benzyl Alcohol | 100-51-6 | 0.1% |
| Benzyl Cyanide | 140-29-4 | 0.05% |
| Farnesal | 19317-11-4 | 0.02% |
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