A warm, spicy essential oil from Peruvian Ocotea (Ocotea quixos), reminiscent of clove and carnation with a soft woody-balsamic backdrop. Opens with a sweet-spicy eugenol-like character, drying into a rounded warm-wood facet.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 123.
almost colorless or pale yellow, mobile liquid
warm-spicy, nutmeg-like, cinnamon-leaf-like odor
far from attractive, high concentration of dry-bitter notes
could find use in perfume work on artificial essential oils
It is steam distilled in Peru from the wood of a tree of the genus lauraceae (possibly myrtaeceae).