Warm, dry clove spice with a pronounced phenolic, medicinal edge from its high eugenol content. Less refined and sweeter-woody than clove bud, with a slightly harsh, almost tarry undertone that mellows into a warm spicy dry-down.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 125.
When crude and natural, Clove Leaf Oil is a dark brown, often violet- or purple-brown oil which may show some precipitate or cloudiness. Rectified clove leaf oil is pale yellow and clear.
The odor of crude clove leaf oil is somewhat harsh, phenolic, only slightly sweet, with a burnt breadlike note, and distinctly different from the odor of eugenol, and different also from the odor of clove bud oil. Woodiness and dryness probably are the most typical notes of clove leaf oil. Rectified clove leaf oil smells sweeter than the crude oil, less harsh and burnt, but still somewhat dry-woody. The odor is much closer to that of eugenol.
The flavor type of the crude leaf oil is, however, inacceptable for use in foods. It does not reproduce the flavor of the clove bud such as it is known by many consumers.
Rectified clove leaf oil may find use in all types of spicy perfumes, particularly in low-cost types and soap perfumes.
The distillation is a so-called direct-fire distillation and corresponds to a type of water-distillation.