Zedoaria (white turmeric) oil has a dry, earthy-rooty character with pronounced camphoraceous and cineolic top notes, opening cool and medicinal before settling into a warm, woody-spicy heart reminiscent of turmeric and ginger rhizome. A faint balsamic-sweet undertone lingers, but the overall impression is dusty, root-cellar and slightly bitter.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 409.
Zedoaria Oil is a viscous liquid of olive-brown to greenish-amber color, often hazy or opalescent.
Its odor is warm, woody-spicy, camphoraceous-cineolic in its initial notes, later sweet and warm, very tenacious.
The flavor is equally warm-spicy, but somewhat bitter in its predominant, camphoraceous note which is accompanied by a slightly biting-bitter aftertaste.
In perfumes, the oil could find some use in the powdery-Oriental types, ambre types, chypres, etc.
Zedoaria Oil is used, although very rarely, in spicy flavor blends, and also as an appetizing tonic in aromatic bitters.
The essential oil is distilled from the dried rhizomes by steam.