Machilus oil (from Machilus species, a Lauraceae relative of camphor and cinnamon) has a fresh green-woody character with a soft spicy-aromatic lift reminiscent of sassafras and mild camphor. Underneath sits a warm, slightly balsamic wood note that gives it a rustic, forest-like feel.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 249.
The wood oil of Machilus is amber-colored or pale olive-green, viscous or almost solid.
The odor is slightly spicy-woody, tobacco-like or cigarbox-like, somewhat earthy, mild, but tenacious.
Machilus Wood Oil could find use as a fixative in perfumes for soap, or to speak generally, where a woody fixative is called for.