Warm, sweet anise-licorice character with a soft herbal-green undertone from trans-anethole. Opens bright and slightly camphoraceous, settling into a rounded, candy-like liquorice sweetness with a mild peppery-fennel edge.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 161.
Sweet Fennel Oil is a colorless or pale yellow liquid.
Sweet Fennel Oil has a very sweet, but slightly earthy or peppery-spicy odor and a clean, sweet-aromatic dryout. There is a hint of a fruity-fresh topnote in fresh oils.
The flavor is warm-spicy, aromatic, then sweet and only faintly burning.
The oil is still used in some perfume types, e.g. chypre, fougére, etc.
It is used more extensively in flavor work, e.g. liqueurs, licorice candy, cough drops, lozenges, etc.
Distillation takes place in many countries from imported or locally grown seed.