Huile essentielle de bois de cèdre de Chine
Ingredients · Woods · dry-down
Cedarwood oil (Chinese)
Smoky, dry cedar-pencil wood with a tarry, burnt edge.
- What it is
- Natural oil from wood and roots of Cupressus funebris.
- Where it comes from
- China
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: what stays.
- What perfumers do with it
- Cheapest cedar oil, used for volume in functional products and smoky woody effects.
- Worth knowing
- Botanically a cypress, not a cedar; its low cedrol content makes it the budget cedar of the trade.
- Rules
- Limited. Its α-cedrene counts toward the IFRA 49th Amendment cedrene limit.
- Also called
- Cupressus funebris; Chinese weeping cypress
Named by the house, not on the label, in 3
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