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Cistus Essential Oil

CAS 8016-26-0  ·  Natural  ·  Heart note  ·  Warm amber

Impact

7 of 10

Substantivity

3.0 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Amber 46%Gourmand 23%Leather 15%Herbal 8%Resinous 8%
warm 69%dry 15%medicinal 5%labdanum 5%aromatic 3%balsamic 3%

What does Cistus Essential Oil smell like?

Warm amber-herbaceous resin straight from the sun-baked shrub: honeyed, leathery, slightly medicinal. Drier and more aromatic than labdanum absolute; the heart of amber accords.

amberlabdanumhoneyleatherymedicinalresinous

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What is Cistus 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
alpha-Pinene 80-56-8 35%
Camphene 79-92-5 4%
2,2,6-Trimethylcyclohexanone 2408-37-9 4%
Bornyl acetate 76-49-3 3%
Viridiflorol 552-02-3 3%

What else is Cistus Essential Oil called?

Cistus Oil  ·  Rockrose oil  ·  Cistus ladaniferus  ·  Cistus

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What can replace Cistus 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.

  • Labdanum (F-TEC) 67% + Manuka Essential Oil 33%
    carries Warm amber, Resin amber, Medicinal herbal, Labdanum resinous. Honey gourmand; Dry leather; Balsamic amber; Labdanum (F-TEC) brings the Warm amber side (67%); Manuka Essential Oil brings the Medicinal herbal side (33%)
    71%
  • Labdanum (F-TEC) 68% + Helichrysum italicum Essential Oil 32%
    carries Warm amber, Resin amber, Medicinal herbal, Labdanum resinous. Honey gourmand; Dry leather; Balsamic amber; Labdanum (F-TEC) brings the Warm amber side (68%); Helichrysum italicum Essential Oil brings the Aromatic herbal side (32%)
    66%
  • Labdanum (F-TEC) 65% + Manuka Essential Oil 15% + Honey Provence FirAbs 942539 20%
    carries Honey gourmand, Resin amber. Warm amber; Dry leather; Balsamic amber; Medicinal herbal; Labdanum resinous; Labdanum (F-TEC) brings the Warm amber side (65%); Manuka Essential Oil brings the Medicinal herbal side (15%); Honey Provence FirAbs 942539 brings the Honey gourmand side (20%)
    69%
  • Labdanum (F-TEC) 60% + Honey Absolute 25% + Manuka Essential Oil 15%
    carries Honey gourmand, Resin amber. Warm amber; Dry leather; Balsamic amber; Medicinal herbal; Labdanum resinous; Labdanum (F-TEC) brings the Warm amber side (60%); Honey Absolute brings the Honey gourmand side (25%); Manuka Essential Oil brings the Medicinal herbal side (15%)
    68%
  • Labdanum (F-TEC) 65% + Helichrysum italicum Essential Oil 10% + Honey Provence FirAbs 942539 25%
    carries Honey gourmand, Resin amber. Warm amber; Dry leather; Balsamic amber; Medicinal herbal; Labdanum resinous; Labdanum (F-TEC) brings the Warm amber side (65%); Helichrysum italicum Essential Oil brings the Aromatic herbal side (10%); Honey Provence FirAbs 942539 brings the Honey gourmand side (25%)
    66%

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Which materials are closest to Cistus Essential Oil?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

Counted from the file the app ships, the moment this page was built.

Cistus Essential Oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
5
Sub-categories under them
6
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
3.0 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
4
Constituent breakdown
5 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.