Warm, earthy, and slightly camphoraceous root aroma with a dry spicy character reminiscent of ginger and carrot seed. Develops a woody-balsamic undertone with a faint musky-medicinal facet as it dries down.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 140.
Curcuma Oil is a yellow to dark orange-yellow liquid which occasionally shows a faintly blue fluorescence.
The odor is usually spicy and fresh, reminiscent of sweet orange, ginger and galanga.
The flavor is slightly pungent and bitter except in extreme dilution.
Curcuma oil can be used in certain types of perfumes where it introduces warm-woody, dry-powdery tonalities in Oriental bases and fantasy fragrances.
Curcuma Oil is produced by steam distillation of the dried, comminuted rhizomes of the curcuma plant.