Bright, lemony-fresh with a distinctive green, grassy character and a soft warm-gingery undertone. Less sharp than lemongrass, drier and more herbaceous, with a subtle spicy-woody facet emerging as it dries down.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 180.
Gingergrass Oil is an oily liquid of yellow to dark yellow, amber-brown or almost brown color.
It has a peculiar fatty-sweet, oily odor, leaving a slightly woody and rosy dryout note. The grassy notes, and particularly the rather fresh-spicy top-notes are entirely different from those found in palmarosa oil. This peculiar odor is sometimes referred to as an 'ensilage'-odor.
Gingergrass Oil finds some use in the construction of certain artificial essential oils, e.g. bergamot oil, jasmin absolute, cumin oil, 'tea'-notes, etc.
The grass is distilled when in full inflorescence, and usually the entire overground parts of the plant are cut for distillation. The stills are generally of a very primitive type.
Restricted IFRA-standard materials typically present in this NCS at the listed concentrations.
| Constituent | CAS | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| Carvone | 99-49-0 | 4% |
| Perilla aldehyde | 2111-75-3 | 0.2% |
| Geraniol | 106-24-1 | 0.04% |