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
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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.