Ocimum canum (African/hoary basil) oil smells sharply herbaceous and aromatic with a strong camphoraceous lift and a warm clove-eugenol facet. The top is fresh and green-peppery, drying down to a spicy, slightly sweet basil-like note with mild balsamic warmth.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 284.
The oil is usually pale yellow or almost colorless.
The oil has an intensely sweet, woody-balsamic odor with a rich and tenacious, fruity-balsamic body-note. The topnotes can be more or less coarse, but the dryout is usually very sweet, soft and pleasant.
The flavor is at first slightly bitter-burning, but as a whole it is sweet, anisic-fruity, slightly perfumey and herbaceous-woody.
The oil could be used in soap perfumes, in fougéres, chypres, lilac bases, appleblossom, citrus colognes, etc.