Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 252.
Sweet marjoram oil is a pale yellow or pale amber colored, rather mobile liquid.
Sweet marjoram oil has a warm-spicy, aromatic-camphoraceous and woody odor, reminiscent of nutmeg and cardamom.
The flavor is spicy-warm, aromatic and somewhat bitter.
Sweet marjoram oil is occasionally used in perfumery to introduce a fresh, slightly medicinal-aromatic, warm note in fougéres, colognes, Oriental bases, etc.
Sweet marjoram oil is used in spice compounds for the flavoring of meat-sauces, canned foods, vinegars, etc.
Sweet Marjoram Oil is steam distilled from the dried leaves and flowering tops of the plant (Origanum majorana). Distillation takes place in France, Tunisia, Morocco, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Germany and experimentally in Turkey.
Restricted IFRA-standard materials typically present in this NCS at the listed concentrations.
| Constituent | CAS | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| Carvone | 99-49-0 | 0.4% |
| Geraniol | 106-24-1 | 0.3% |