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Frankincense Essential Oil

CAS 8016-36-2  ·  Natural  ·  Top note  ·  Incense

Impact

6 of 10

Substantivity

7.8 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Resinous 55%Citrus 27%Woody 18%
dry 43%incense 30%lemon 27%

What does Frankincense Essential Oil smell like?

True olibanum: fresh terpenic pine-lemon lifting a warm balsamic incense heart. The meditative resin at the core of incense and amber accords.

resinousincensebalsamiccitruswoody

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What is Frankincense 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%
Limonene 138-86-3 12%
alpha-Thujene 2867-05-2 8%
Myrcene 123-35-3 6%
Sabinene 3387-41-5 5%
p-Cymene 99-87-6 4%
beta-Caryophyllene 87-44-5 3%

What else is Frankincense Essential Oil called?

Frankincense  ·  Frankincense EO  ·  Frankincense Oil

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What can replace Frankincense 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.

  • Frankincense Essential Oil (Boswellia sacra)
    carries Incense resinous, Lemon citrus, Dry woody, Balsamic resinous. The same oil in another grade (same CAS); lasts about 9.4x shorter on paper
    79%
  • Frankincense Essential Oil (Boswellia frereana) 30% + Olibanum Essential Oil 40% + Black Pine Essential Oil 30%
    carries Incense resinous, Lemon citrus, Dry woody, Balsamic resinous. Zesty citrus; Frankincense Essential Oil (Boswellia frereana) brings the Incense resinous side (30%); Olibanum Essential Oil brings the Incense resinous side (40%); Black Pine Essential Oil brings the Dry woody side (30%)
    83%
  • Olibanum Essential Oil 64% + Black Pine Essential Oil 36%
    carries Incense resinous, Lemon citrus, Dry woody, Balsamic resinous. Zesty citrus; Olibanum Essential Oil brings the Incense resinous side (64%); Black Pine Essential Oil brings the Dry woody side (36%)
    78%
  • Olibanum Essential Oil 62% + Pine (F-TEC) 39%
    carries Incense resinous, Lemon citrus, Balsamic resinous, Zesty citrus. Dry woody; Pine resinous; Olibanum Essential Oil brings the Incense resinous side (61%); Pine (F-TEC) brings the Dry woody side (39%)
    77%
  • Olibanum Essential Oil 55% + Black Pine Essential Oil 30% + Geranial 15%
    carries Incense resinous, Lemon citrus, Dry woody, Balsamic resinous. Pine resinous; Zesty citrus; Olibanum Essential Oil brings the Incense resinous side (55%); Black Pine Essential Oil brings the Dry woody side (30%); Geranial brings the Lemon citrus side (15%)
    81%

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Which materials are closest to Frankincense Essential Oil?

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How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

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

Frankincense Essential Oil

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