CEDARWOOD LEBANON OIL
Cedarwood Lebanon
Natural ingredient for perfumery overview
Botanical Name: cedrus libani
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 wood—and thereby indirectly the essential oil—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 🇱🇧
How or when to 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