Huile essentielle de bois de cèdre de Chine
Cedarwood oil

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