Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 137.
Cubeb Oil is a pale greenish-yellow to bluish-yellow, occasionally almost colorless, somewhat viscous oil.
The odor of Cubeb Oil is very dry-woody, but simultaneously warm-camphoraceous, spicy-peppery.
The flavor of cubeb oil is warm, but bitter, hardly pungent at all.
Cubeb oil is useful in soap perfumes where it may lend peppery undertones and warm-woody character. It is also very useful in the creation of woody-peppery perfume bases, carnation perfumes, and in the construction of artificial essential oils.
Cubeb oil is only rarely used in flavors, occasionally in spice blends.
Cubeb Oil is steam distilled from the unripe, dried, crushed fruits of Piper Cubeba.
Restricted IFRA-standard materials typically present in this NCS at the listed concentrations.
| Constituent | CAS | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| trans-Asarone/alpha-Asarone | 2883-98-9 | 3.7% |
| Cuminaldehyde | 122-03-2 | 0.1% |
| Iso-Safrole | 94-59-7 | 0.05% |