A crisp, bright coniferous oil with a clean pine-needle character and a cool, slightly camphoraceous edge. Opens sharp and forest-fresh with turpentine-like brightness, drying down to a soft resinous-balsamic woodiness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 334.
Water white (when fairly fresh)
Very pleasant pine-type odor: balsamic-sweet, faintly woody, also slightly spicy, reminiscent of cypress and juniperberry, with an increasingly oily-fatty, but interesting undertone of great tenacity.
Used in perfumery mainly in combination with other pine needle oils, isobornyl acetate, cedarwood oils or derivatives, lavandin oil, rosemary oil, sage oil, aliphatic aldehydes, cananga oil, labdanum products, etc. for room spray perfumes, bath preparations, Christmas fragrances, 'leather' type bases.