Warm, sweet-spicy and distinctly root-beer-like, with a camphoraceous edge and a soft woody-balsamic undertone. Dominated by safrole, it has a nostalgic sarsaparilla/sassafras candy character that fades into a drier, faintly medicinal woodiness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 356.
Sassafras Oil is a yellowish to pale brownish yellow oily liquid.
The oil is heavier than water and, to a significant degree, soluble in the water.
Sassafras Oil has a sweet-spicy, fresh and slightly camphoraceous odor with a long-lasting, woody-floral and very sweet undertone. A sharp, fresh-peppery topnote is characteristic of the odor of this oil.
The flavor is sweet, somewhat woody, usually described as 'root-beer'-like.
In perfumery, the cheaper oils of camphor and ocotea pretiosa have substituted for sassafras oil for a long time.
Up to now, however, safrole and sassafras oil have been used as the main constituents of most root-beer flavors for candy, carbonated and non-carbonated drinks, toothpastes, mouthwashes, etc.
Distillation takes place mainly in the southeastern states where fairly modern installations now are at hand.