Snakeroot (Canadian) oil, from Asarum canadense (wild ginger), has a deep, warm, earthy-rooty character with spicy woody facets and a soft balsamic sweetness. It reads a bit like a cross between vetiver and ginger — rooty and dry but with a warm, slightly pungent aromatic lift.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 359.
Canadian Snakeroot Oil is a yellowish to amber-brownish colored liquid whose viscosity increases on ageing.
Its odor is warm-aromatic, woody-spicy, yet rich and sweet with a minty-gingerlike undertone, and a pronounced tea-like, lasting dryout.
The flavor is equally warm, slightly pungent or biting and spicy-aromatic.
This oil is occasionally used in perfumes where it blends well with amyl salicylate, bergamot, costus, ionones, methyl eugenol, oakmoss products, patchouli, pine needle oils, sage clary and even florals such as cassie and mimosa.
The main use, however, is in flavors where it acts as an excellent blender and modifier with ginger, clove, coriander, hop, and numerous spicy or herbaceous flavor materials. Its warmth and natural richness lends body to the flavor, and rounds off chemical notes where synthetic materials have been used.
This oil is produced by steam distillation of the dried, comminuted rhizomes and roots of Asarum Canadense.