Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 204.
Juniperberry oil is a water-white or very pale yellow, mobile oil.
The natural (total) juniperberry oil is poorly soluble in ethyl alcohol.
The oil has a fresh, yet warm, rich-balsamic, woody-sweet and pine-needle-like odor.
The flavor of steam distilled juniperberry oil is warm, slightly bitter-aromatic, balsamic and rich.
Juniperberry oil is used in perfumery for its fresh-balsamic notes, as a modifier for various pine needle oils, with citrus oils in room spray perfumes, in ambres, fougères, chypres, after-shave fragrances, spice compositions, colognes, etc.
In flavors, it is customary to use a sesquiterpene-less oil, produced from a high-grade true juniper-berry oil.
The best oil is steam distilled from the crushed, dried or partially dried, ripe berries. Occasionally water distillation is used.
Restricted IFRA-standard materials typically present in this NCS at the listed concentrations.
| Constituent | CAS | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| alpha-Cedrene | 469-61-4 | 0.4% |
| Geraniol | 106-24-1 | 0.1% |
| Longifolene | 475-20-7 | 0.1% |
| beta-Thujone | 471-15-8 | 0.05% |