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Aniseed Essential Oil

CAS 8007-70-3  ·  Natural  ·  Heart note  ·  Anisic

Impact

7 of 10

Substantivity

2.8 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Herbal 55%Sweet 27%Spicy 18%
anisic 55%sugary 27%seedy 18%

What does Aniseed Essential Oil smell like?

Sweet licorice-anisic warmth, rounder and softer than star anise, with a faint carrot-seed herbal edge from the umbellifer terpenes. The Pimpinella anise of pastis and aniseed confectionery; interchangeable with star anise only in outline, and the gentler choice for anise in gourmands and fougeres.

anisicsweetherbalwarm

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What is Aniseed Essential Oil made of?

An estimate, not a certificate of analysis. PerfuMate sums it when it checks a formula; paste your own supplier analysis and it takes over.

ConstituentCASShare
trans-Anethole 4180-23-8 90%
Estragole 140-67-0 2%
gamma-Himachalene 53111-25-4 2%
p-Methoxybenzaldehyde 123-11-5 1%
Limonene 138-86-3 1%
Linalool 78-70-6 1%

What else is Aniseed Essential Oil called?

Aniseed oil

How much Aniseed Essential Oil can go in a perfume (IFRA limit)

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Which materials are closest to Aniseed Essential Oil?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

What can replace Aniseed Essential Oil?

Computed, not collected from forums. A pair covers together what one cannot. The number is how much of this material's character a bottle carries, not a promise that it is the same thing.

  • Anise Seed Essential Oil
    carries Anisic herbal, Sugary sweet, Seedy spicy. The same oil in another grade (same CAS); our catalog cannot tell these two apart by their notes, so smell them side by side
    95%
  • Star anise Essential Oil
    carries Anisic herbal, Sugary sweet. Seedy spicy
    84%
  • Star anise Essential Oil 77% + Caraway Seed Essential Oil 23%
    carries Anisic herbal, Sugary sweet. Seedy spicy; Star anise Essential Oil brings the Anisic herbal side (77%); Caraway Seed Essential Oil brings the Seedy spicy side (23%)
    87%
  • Star anise Essential Oil 82% + Dill weed Essential Oil 18%
    carries Anisic herbal, Sugary sweet. Seedy spicy; Star anise Essential Oil brings the Anisic herbal side (82%); Dill weed Essential Oil brings the Herbal green side (18%)
    87%
  • Star anise Essential Oil 76% + Toscanol 24%
    carries Anisic herbal, Sugary sweet. Seedy spicy; Star anise Essential Oil brings the Anisic herbal side (76%); Toscanol brings the Anisic herbal side (24%)
    84%

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Aniseed Essential Oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
2.8 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
1
Constituent breakdown
6 molecules

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Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
2125
Classified into an olfactive family
2,172
Carrying several families, in order
2,070
Sub-category assignments
9,899 across 229 pairs
A top / heart / base band
2,157
Hours on a blotter
898
CAS number
1,642
Supplier synonyms
5,888 names
Constituent breakdowns
739

Every regulatory join - IFRA, GHS, allergens - is by CAS number, and a material can supply one through its constituents as well as its own row, so of the 569 materials carrying no CAS number the 244 without a constituent table are the ones that return "nothing known" rather than "nothing applies". The blotter hours are sourced rather than measured by us, and the app labels every one of them an estimate. There is no physical chemistry on a row: no molecular weight, no vapour pressure, no boiling point. The longer answer, or the whole catalog counted.