Cadinene is a sesquiterpene with a dry, woody-herbal character reminiscent of juniper, cade and cedarwood. It has an earthy, slightly resinous undertone with a subdued, dusty quality rather than a sharp or diffusive projection.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 233.
Colorless, slightly viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with most perfume and flavor oils.
Mild, dry-woody, slightly medicinal-tarry odor with some similarity to spices or condiments in the Cumin-Thyme family.
Occasionally used in flavor compositions, mostly as a fixative in candy flavors, where the stability to heat is an advantage.
Little, if any, of this chemical is used in perfume compositions as such. However, several chemical derivatives are used.
Concentrations of this chemical may then be as high as 4000 ppm in the finished candy.
Produced by isolation from Brazilian Cedrela-wood oils or from the non-esterified portion of Ampyris oil in the preparation of so-called 'Amyris acetate'.