Cedarwood Texas Oil

🔎Botanical Name — Juniperus Mexicana

📂 CAS N° 68990-83-0

📝 Odor Type — Woody

📈 Odor Strength — Medium

👃🏼 Odor Profile — Pale yellow liquid with a clean, sweet-woody aroma reminiscent of pencil shavings. Fractions yield sesquiterpenes for dry-woody essence and cedrenol / cedrol for a pleasing balsamic scent.

⚗️ Uses — The oil of Juniperus Mexicana (Texas cedarwood oil) is widely utilized in perfumery for its distinctive aroma and versatile properties. Both crude and rectified oils are commonly employed in fragrance formulations to impart woody, sweet, and balsamic notes to various perfumes and cosmetic products. These oils contribute to the creation of complex and multi-dimensional fragrances, adding depth and longevity to the scent compositions. Their use in perfumery spans across a wide range of products, including but not limited to, fine fragrances, personal care products, candles, and home fragrances. Perfumers appreciate the unique olfactory profile of Texas cedarwood oil, which blends well with a variety of other fragrance ingredients, allowing for endless creative possibilities in perfume creation.

What is Cedarwood Texas Oil?

Juniperus deppeana (alligator juniper or checkerbark juniper; Native American names include táscate and tláscal) is a small to a medium-sized tree reaching 10–15 m (rarely to 25 m) tall. It is native to central and northern Mexico (from Oaxaca northward) and the southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas). It grows at moderate altitudes of 750–2,700 meters (2,460–8,860 ft)on dry soils. The bark is usually very distinctive, unlike other junipers, hard, dark gray-brown, cracked into small square plates superficially resembling alligator skin; it is however sometimes like other junipers, with stringy vertical fissuring. The shoots are 1-1.5 mm in diameter; the leaves are arranged in opposite decussate pairs or whorls of three; the adult leaves are scale-like, 1-2.5 mm long (to 5 mm on lead shoots), and 1-1.5 mm broad. The juvenile leaves (on young seedlings only) are needle-like, 5–10 mm long. The cones are berry-like, 7–15 mm in diameter, green maturing orange-brown with a whitish waxy bloom, and contain 2-6 seeds; they are mature in about 18 months. The male cones are 4–6 mm long and shed their pollen in spring. It is largely dioecious, producing cones of only one sex on each tree, but occasional trees are monoecious. 

There are five varieties, not accepted as distinct by all authorities: 

• Juniperus deppeana –var. deppeana. Throughout the range of the species. Foliage dull gray-green with a transparent or yellowish resin spot on each leaf; cones 7–12 mm diameter.

• Juniperus deppeana –var. pachyphlaea (syn. J. pachyphlaea). Arizona, New Mexico, northernmost Mexico. Foliage strongly glaucous with a white resin spot on each leaf; cones 7–12 mm diameter. 

• Juniperus deppeana –var. robusta (syn. J. deppeana var. patoniana). Northwestern Mexico. Cones large,r 10–15 mm diameter. 

• Juniperus deppeana –var. sperryi. Western Texas, very rare. Bark furrowed, not square-cracked, branchlets pendulous; possibly a hybrid with Juniperus flaccida. 

• Juniperus deppeana –var. zacatecensis. Zacatecas. Cones large, 10– 15 mm diameter. 

( Juniperus dappeana – Wikipedia )

Olfactive Description:

Fresh at the beginning, fresh-cut wood, woody. Classic pencil sharpener smell.

Where it grows:

Grows in Texas, very close to Mexico 🇲🇽 .

Method of Extraxction:

Cedarwood oil is obtained by steam distillation of the wood reduced in powder, due to the presence of heavy molecules inside the wood.

How or when use it:

As a blender for ionones and methyl ionones, cinnamic alcohol, nitro musks, Ambre bases and leather bases, patchouli, pine, spruce, vetiver oil, etc.

Appearance:

It is a yellow to dark yellow liquid.

Impact:

Impacts in mid to base note, persistent for about 24H.