A dense, dry, and intensely woody-earthy oil with a pronounced camphoraceous, almost medicinal bitterness. Rich in sesquiterpene lactones (alantolactone), it develops a slightly sweet, root-like balsamic warmth on drydown, reminiscent of dried orris root and old wood.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 150.
It is a semi-solid mass or a viscous liquid which often displays a mass of crystals. The color is dark yellow to brownish-yellow, occasionally pale yellow and turbid.
It is dry-woody in odor, but also sweet, somewhat amber- or honeylike with a fatty undertone. The odor has some resemblance to those of calamus, costus and cedrela.
The flavor is warm, woody-rootlike, slightly bitter, nauseating, reminiscent of calamus oil and manevoro oil.
Elecampane Oil is useful in perfumery for heavy-woody, Oriental or amber-like bases, and it blends well with cananga, cinnamon, labdanum, lavender, mimosa, olibanum, orris, tuberose, violet, cedarwood, patchouli, nitromusks, etc. The tenacity and soft woodiness of the odor of elecampane oil makes it an attractive fixative in perfumes.
It has very little application in flavors.
The essential oil can be isolated by steam distillation.