Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 96.
Carnation is an olive green to green or orange-brown, viscous liquid.
The flowers are extracted with petroleum ether to yield a hard, green concrete.
Carnation Absolute has a very sweet, honeylike, somewhat herbaceous, heavy and tenacious fragrance, reminiscent of the odor of the live flowers only to a certain degree and only in high dilutions (59% or weaker).
Carnation Absolute is used sparingly in certain modern perfumes, and it can add interesting notes to rose, lily, narcissus, etc. It blends well with lavender, ylang-ylang, sage clary, castoreum, etc.
An absolute is produced by the usual alcohol washing method.
Restricted IFRA-standard materials typically present in this NCS at the listed concentrations.
| Constituent | CAS | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| Eugenol | 97-53-0 | 18% |
| Benzyl benzoate | 120-51-4 | 13% |
| Benzyl Salicylate | 118-58-1 | 7% |
| Benzyl Alcohol | 100-51-6 | 0.2% |