Hinoki (Japanese cypress) oil — a clean, softly resinous coniferous wood with a fresh, slightly lemony-green top and a smooth, dry cedar-like heart. Less sharp than pine or cypress, with a meditative, temple-wood character and faint camphor nuance.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 109.
Hinoki Root Oil is a pale yellow liquid. Hinoki Leaf Oil is a yellowish liquid.
Hinoki Root Oil has a dry, woody, camphoraceous odor with a peculiar warm-sweet, almost spicy undertone. Hinoki Leaf Oil has an intensely strong, camphoraceous, fresh pine-like and somewhat green odor that is distinctly fresher than that from the root oil but also lighter in type.
Hinoki Root Oil is used locally for low-cost soap perfumes, for industrial perfumes, insecticides, etc. Hinoki Leaf Oil has no importance in perfumery outside of its countries of origin where it finds use in soaps, detergents, industrial perfumes, etc.
Hinoki Root Oil is produced by steam distillation of the roots which are chopped but not always dried prior to distillation. Hinoki Leaf Oil is steam distilled from the leaves of the tree.