Cedarwood Lebanon Oil

from €12.00

Natural Ingredient for Perfumery

Cedarwood Oil from the ancient, legally protected Cedrus Libani trees of Lebanon offers a unique, creamy woody scent, distinct from the dusty note of Texas or Virginian cedar.

This rare essential oil, used in perfumery, brings a slightly spicy, non-pencil-like aroma.

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Natural Ingredient for Perfumery

Cedarwood Oil from the ancient, legally protected Cedrus Libani trees of Lebanon offers a unique, creamy woody scent, distinct from the dusty note of Texas or Virginian cedar.

This rare essential oil, used in perfumery, brings a slightly spicy, non-pencil-like aroma.

Natural Ingredient for Perfumery

Cedarwood Oil from the ancient, legally protected Cedrus Libani trees of Lebanon offers a unique, creamy woody scent, distinct from the dusty note of Texas or Virginian cedar.

This rare essential oil, used in perfumery, brings a slightly spicy, non-pencil-like aroma.

  • πŸ”ŽBotanical Name β€” Cedrus libani

  • πŸ“‚ CAS NΒ° β€” 89997-33-1

  • πŸ“ Odor Type β€” Woody

  • πŸ“ˆ Odor Strength β€” Medium

  • πŸ‘ƒπŸΌ Odor Profile β€” Warm and creamy. woody. Slightly spicy and dusty. The main difference with other quality of cedarwood is this creaminess with is absent in Texas and Virginian and lower in Atlas.

  • βš—οΈ Uses β€” To impart a woody not that is different from the regular cedar without that dusty (pencil) note.

What is Cedarwood Lebanon?

The world famous and antique, perhaps thousand-year-old cedars of Lebanon are protected by law against felling or any kind of exploitation. The tree, Cedrus Libani, grows wild in the mountains of Lebanon and in the nearby island of Cyprus. Although the woodβ€”and thereby indirectly the essential oilβ€”from this tree is one of the oldest known perfume materials, the oil is not very available.

Olfactive Description:

Warm and creamy. woody. Slightly spicy and dusty. The main difference with other quality of cedarwood is this creaminess with is absent in Texas and Virginian and lower in Atlas.

Where it grows:

Well, Lebanon πŸ‡±πŸ‡§

How or when use it:

To impart a woody not that is different from the regular cedar without that dusty (pencil) note.

Method of Extraction

Cedrus libani is distilled from logs of the tree. The sample provided has beed distilled in Turkey, and has been submitted for analysis from Goymen Oil.

Interesting patent of production from Bedoukian (1990) here

Appearance:

Pale yellow liquid

Possible adulteration:

The oils which are offered today under the name of Lebanon cedarwood oil are most likely oils, distilled from the wood of Cedrus Atlantica, Manetti. This tree is known as the Atlas Cedar and it grows in great number in Morocco and Algeria (the Atlas mountains). The essential oil is produced regularly.

Chemistry:

About this sample:

46,7% beta-himachalene
22,5% alpha-himachalene
12,5% gamma-himachalene
2% cedrene isomers


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