A dry, earthy woody oil with a smoky-spicy character reminiscent of vetiver crossed with patchouli. Opens with a slightly pungent, rooty facet and settles into a warm, leathery-balsamic woodiness with subtle sweet-hay nuances.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 142.
Amber colored or light brown viscous liquid
The oil has a woody-earthy and very tenacious odor. The very first impression of the odor of this oil bears great resemblance to the odor-impression of the 'Oriental' cinnamon-olibanum complex: diffusive, dry, woody, slightly spicy. The overall body-note resembles that of Virginia cedarwood and vetiver oils, but toward the dryout there is a strong similarity to vetiver in sweet-woody and rich undertones.
Cypriol blends well with bergamot, labdanum, patchouli, sage clary, etc. for dry ambre notes which can be further enhanced by the addition of very small amounts of 'fixateur 404' or the complex 'grisambrol', etc. Cypriol is useful in perfumes or bases of the woody, Oriental or dry-ambre types, in heavy fougéres, in hyacinth (along with galbanum resinoid), in forest notes and in general as a fixative.
Cypriol is produced by steam distillation of roots and rhizomes after proper washing, drying and comminuting, similar to the treatment of vetiver rootlets.