Dry, pencil-shaving cedar with a clean, slightly sweet balsamic warmth. Softer and more powdery than Atlas cedarwood, with a characteristic sharpened-pencil facet from cedrol and a mild resinous undertone that persists on the blotter.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 105.
Virginia Cedarwood Oil is a pale yellow to slightly orange-yellow colored oil which, on rectification, will yield a water-white, oily liquid.
The odor of Virginia cedarwood oil is at first oily-woody and almost sweet, mild and pleasant, somewhat balsamic and typical of cedarwood. The odor becomes drier and more woody, less balsamic as the oil dries out on a perfume blotter.
Virginia Cedarwood Oil is used extensively in perfumery, particularly in soap perfumery, as a fixative and cost-reducer for vetiver oil, sandalwood oil, patchouli oil or even in the comparatively cheap guaiacwood oil. The dry-woody character and the fixative effect of cedarwood oil, Virginia, make it almost universally applicable. The oil is frequently used as the only active perfume ingredient in room sprays, disinfectants, insecticides, cleansers and other industrial products, household products, etc.
The essential oil is steam distilled from the sawdust and other waste wood from the lumbermills.