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Galangal Essential Oil

CAS 8024-40-6  ·  Natural  ·  Heart note
Spicy 67%Herbal 33%
ginger 44%camphor 33%black-pepper 22%

What does Galangal Essential Oil smell like?

Steam-distilled from lesser galangal rhizome (Alpinia officinarum), a pungent, warm ginger-like spice with peppery, fresh herbal and slightly camphoraceous, myrtle-like nuances. Similar in feel to ginger oil, it adds spicy naturalness and warmth to gourmand and amber bouquets.

spicypepperywarmherbalcamphoraceousfresh

Impact

6 of 10

Typical dilution

10% in solvent

Subfamily

Hot spice

Which families does Galangal Essential Oil belong to?

Spicy · 67%

ginger, black-pepper

Herbal · 33%

camphor

What is Galangal Essential Oil made of?

An estimated breakdown, not a certificate of analysis, and it is what PerfuMate sums when it checks a formula: a molecule arriving from three naturals at once is counted once rather than missed three times. Paste your own supplier analysis and it takes over.

ConstituentCASShare
1,8-Cineole 470-82-6 45%
beta-Pinene 127-91-3 8%
alpha-Pinene 80-56-8 5%
Camphor 76-22-2 3%
Limonene 138-86-3 1.5%
Myrcene 123-35-3 1.5%

What else is Galangal Essential Oil called?

Galangal Oil  ·  Lesser Galangal EO  ·  Galanga Root EO  ·  Galanga Oil  ·  Alpinia officinarum oil  ·  Galangal

Which materials are closest to Galangal Essential Oil?

Ranked by how many olfactive sub-categories they share with Galangal Essential Oil, not alphabetically.

How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

What this page carries, beside what the whole catalog carries. Every figure on the right is counted from the file the app ships, at the moment this page was built, so it cannot drift from the product the way a sentence somebody typed would.

Galangal Essential Oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
6
Constituent breakdown
6 molecules

All 1,581 materials

Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
every one
Classified into an olfactive family
1,547
Carrying several families, in order
1,465
Sub-category assignments
7,405 across 214 pairs
A top / heart / base band
1,532
Hours on a blotter
441
CAS number
1,153
Supplier synonyms
4,308 names
Constituent breakdowns
588

And the limits, because they decide how far the rest can be trusted. 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 428 materials carrying no CAS number the 127 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.

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