Ocotea pretiosa (Brazilian sassafras) oil has a warm, sweet-spicy, camphoraceous aroma dominated by safrole — root-beer-like with a slightly medicinal, woody undertone. Fresh at first with a rooty-anise character, drying to a soft warm woodiness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 286.
The essential oil is a pale yellow oily liquid.
The oil has a sweet aromatic, warm-spicy, camphoraceous odor, reminiscent of brown camphor oil or North American sassafras oil.
In flavors, the oil is often used in place of North American sassafras oil for the so-called 'Root-Beers' which are soft drinks of sassafras-anise-wintergreen flavor with or without licorice extract.
Ocotea pretiosa oil is used extensively in the so-called 'technical' perfuming for industrial products. Many insecticides, floor waxes, polishes, glues, disinfectants, etc. are perfumed mainly or exclusively with this oil.
The oil is often used in place of North American sassafras oil for the so-called 'Root-Beers' which are soft drinks of sassafras-anise-wintergreen flavor with or without licorice extract.
The oil is steam distilled from the wood which is of little use for any other purposes.