A soft, dry ambery-herbaceous material with a subtle tobacco and hay facet. Faintly balsamic and woody, with a slightly sweet, tea-like undertone. In isolation it reads as understated and diffusive rather than loud, acting more as a fixative-textural note than a bold statement.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 1251.
White crystals.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils. The solubility in alcohol is rather low, but sufficient for practical perfume compounding. The material is easily soluble in hot alcohol.
Practically odorless.
Slightly bitter taste in concentrations of about 100 ppm.
Sclareol as such is rarely used in perfumery, but a great number of related, odorous chemicals with similar fixative effect are used in modern perfumes.
Produced by isolation from Clary Sage absolute, which contains from 38 to 45% of Sclareol.
| Category | Kind | Max % | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category 1 | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 2 | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 3 | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 4 | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 5A | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 5B | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 5C | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 5D | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 6 | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 7A | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 7B | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 8 | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 9 | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 10A | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 10B | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 11A | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 11B | Specification | — | See note above | DOC |
| Category 12 | Specification | — | See note above | 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.