Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 247.
Lovage Oil is an amber to olive-brown colored liquid.
It has a very powerful and rich, spicy-warm, fresh-aromatic, intensely sweet and 'root-like' odor, suggestive of celery, angelica, licorice extract, deertongue oleoresin, etc.
The flavor is slightly pungent, but only in high concentrations. The warm-spicy and 'soup-like' celery note is predominant; the intensity is striking.
Lovage Oil is used in perfumes in minute amounts to produce 'special effects', or to lend warm background notes in spicy or Oriental bases. It gives interesting effects with rose bases and in carnation compositions, and it blends excellently with costus, galbanum, macrocyclic musks, opopanax, coumarin derivatives, oakmoss products, bay leaf oil, lavandin absolute, isoeugenol, cinnamic aldehyde and cinnamic alcohol, flouve oil.
In flavors, it gives rich body to essences for alcoholic beverages (liqueurs of the D.O.M. and similar types), and it is an excellent additive in spicy compounds for seasonings, pickles, meat sauces, etc. It gives interesting combinations with flouve oil, deertongue and bergamot oil for tobacco flavoring.
Lovage Root Oil is produced by steam distillation of the comminuted roots of Levisticum Officinale.
Restricted IFRA-standard materials typically present in this NCS at the listed concentrations.
| Constituent | CAS | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| 3-Propylidenephthalide | 17369-59-4 | 0.1% |