A dry, woody sesquiterpene with a soft cedar character — pencil-shavings and light resinous facets. Fairly quiet on its own but adds body and a natural woody backbone to accords, without the sharpness of atlas cedar or the sweetness of virginia cedar.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 249.
Colorless oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and perfume oils.
Woody-camphoraceous, somewhat dry and green odor, reminiscent of Cedarwood (American).
Fractions from American Cedarwood oil, rich in Cedrene, are used in perfumery mainly for soaps, household products and in industrial perfumes, masking odors, etc.
Produced by fractionated distillation of Eastern American Cedarwood oil, or from Cedrol by dehydration.
Natural complex substances (NCSs) in which this material typically occurs.
| NCS | Botanical | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| CEDARWOOD OIL, VIRGINIAN | Juniperus virginiana L. | 30.2% |
| CEDARWOOD OIL, CHINESE | Cupressus funebris Endl. | 25.1% |
| CEDARWOOD OIL TERPENES | Juniperus mexicana Schiede | 23% |
| — | Juniperus mexicana Schiede | 15% |
| CYPRESS OIL | Cupresssus sempervirens L. | 0.8% |
| VERBENA OIL AND ABSOLUTE (LIPPIA CITRIODORA KUNTH.) | Lippia citriodora (L.) Kunth | 0.6% |
| VETIVER OIL (ALL ORIGINS) | Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty | 0.3% |