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Cedarwood oil

Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Cedarwood oil (Virginia)

Dry, clean pencil-shavings wood, lightly sweet, balsamic and faintly smoky.

What it is
Natural oil from wood and sawdust of Juniperus virginiana.
Where it comes from
eastern United States
When you smell it
Dry-down: what stays.
What perfumers do with it
Affordable dry-wood backbone for masculine, chypre and woody accords; source of natural cedrol and cedrene.
Worth knowing
Despite its name it is a juniper, and its wood long cased pencils—hence the familiar smell.
Rules
Limited. Its α-cedrene counts toward the IFRA 49th Amendment cedrene limit.
Also called
Juniperus virginiana; red cedar; pencil cedar

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