Manool is a diterpene alcohol isolated from clary sage and certain conifers, with a dry, ambery-woody character. It has a soft balsamic warmth with faint tobacco and pine-resin facets, more subtle and skin-close than typical amber materials.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 780.
The commercial product is a whitish or very pale yellowish crystalline mass or waxy mass.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, miscible with most oils.
Very delicate, woody, dry-sweet, and extremely tenacious odor with a distinct and typical Ambregris-like undertone.
Manool, as such, finds only limited use in perfumery. Most of the annual world production goes into the production of Ambregris chemical specialties.
Produced by extraction of comminuted wood of Dacrydium biforme, a tree indigenous to New Zealand, with alcohol or acetone. The extract is neutralized with alkali, and the crude Manool may be recrystallized.