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Guaiacwood Oil

CAS
EC
Material type
natural absolute
Canonical source
arctander
Formulation

Usage guidance

Suggested min
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Cost
Stock
Compatibility tags
woodyorientalchypreamberleatherrose
How it behaves

Olfactory profile

Family
sweet
Note tendency
Base
Descriptors
sweetrosywoodysmoked

A soft, sweet woody note with a smoky, tea-like character and a subtle rosy-floral facet. Dries down slowly to a warm, balsamic, slightly leathery wood with excellent fixative quality.AI · claude-opus-4-7

Intensity
5 / 10
Tenacity
9 / 10
Volatility
2 / 10
Reverse-composition

Contained in

Other ingredients whose composition declares this material as a constituent. The percentage shown is the supplier-declared concentration in that parent.

Ingredient%Range
Saffron Attar Base1–3%
naturals · No. 200

Arctander monograph

Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 186.

BASEtenacity · moderatepower · moderatesteam distillation
sweetrosywoodysmoked
Appearance

Guaiacwood Oil is a soft or semi-solid mass, yellowish to greenish yellow or pale amber in color. When melted, it may stay supercooled and liquid for a long time.

Odor

Apart from its delicately sweet, rosy-woody odor which is often referred to as 'tearose-like', the oil may have a 'smoked ham' odor which is definitely unwanted, but not uncommon.

Uses in perfumery

It is a low-cost fixative and modifier, an excellent blender in woody-floral perfumes, in soap compounds as well as high-class perfumes. It blends well with linalool, nerol, geraniol, terpineol, oakmoss, ionones, orris products, spice oils, etc.

Production

This oil is steam distilled, occasionally steam-and-water distilled from the wood of Bulnesia Sarmienti.

Identity
Aliases · 5
guaiac wood acetateguaiacwood concréteGuaiacyl AcetateGuaiolGuaiyl Acetate
Commercial
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