Cade oil (juniper tar) has an intense, dry smoky-tarry smell reminiscent of a smoldering campfire, birch tar, and creosote-soaked wood. Underneath the acrid phenolic smoke there is a resinous coniferous-wood character and a leathery, almost medicinal facet that lingers heavily on the blotter.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 85.
Rectified Cade Oil is a clear, orange-brown to dark brown, oily liquid.
Cade Oil has an intense tar-like, smoky-phenolic odor.
Cade Oil finds occasionally use in the flavoring of meat and seafood to which it imparts the smoke-note previously obtained in a regular smokehouse.
Its use in perfumery is limited to situations where a smoky-leathery, woody-phenolic, dry and warm note is called for: forest notes, leather-bases, fougeres, pine for men’s fragrances, etc.
Cade Oil is obtained by rectification (steam distillation or vacuum distillation) of the crude juniper tar oil.
Restricted IFRA-standard materials typically present in this NCS at the listed concentrations.
| Constituent | CAS | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| DIHYDROXYGUAIACOL | 2785-87-7 | 0.5% |