Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 242.
Linaloe Wood Oil is a pale yellow or almost colorless liquid, occasionally turbid or dirty; its color may be pale orange when it is kept in poor containers (iron, rust, dirt, moisture).
The odor of this oil is sweet-woody and floral, with a more or less green and oily topnote according to the quality of the oil. Very good oils are rare, and they show little or no pungent notes in the top, but have a sweet, delicate floralness which remains fairly constant and uniform throughout all stages of evaporation.
In perfumery, therefore, good grades of linaloe wood oil can be used as blenders or even bases in floral perfumes, e.g. muguet, lilac, appleblossom, freesia, rose, sweet pea, etc., while the oil can find general application as a modifier for numerous floral and floral-woody perfume types.
It is steam distilled from the wood of old and deliberately damaged trees of Bursera species, particularly Bursera Delpechiana.
Restricted IFRA-standard materials typically present in this NCS at the listed concentrations.
| Constituent | CAS | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| Geraniol | 106-24-1 | 1% |