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Holy Basil Essential Oil

CAS 91845-35-1  ·  Natural  ·  Heart note  ·  Aromatic herb

Impact

7 of 10

Substantivity

20 hours on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Herbal 50%Spicy 25%Green 17%Resinous 8%
aromatic 50%anisic 17%clove 17%warm 8%balsamic 8%

What does Holy Basil Essential Oil smell like?

Steam-distilled tulsi (Ocimum sanctum), a sweet, pungent, clove-like green-herbaceous oil rich in eugenol with a warm balsamic-woody undertone and a lift of methyl chavicol. Adds spicy herbal warmth and a sacred, clove-basil character to aromatic, herbal and amber accords, dosed with care for its eugenol and estragole content.

herbalclovegreenbalsamicspicywarm

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What is Holy Basil 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
Eugenol 97-53-0 45%
beta-Caryophyllene 87-44-5 20%
Methyl eugenol 93-15-2 10%
beta-Elemene 515-13-9 5%
Germacrene D 23986-74-5 3%
Estragole 140-67-0 2%
Linalool 78-70-6 1%

What else is Holy Basil Essential Oil called?

Holy Basil Oil  ·  Tulsi Oil  ·  Tulsi  ·  Ocimum sanctum oil  ·  Ocimum tenuiflorum oil  ·  Holy Basil

Restricted under IFRA. This material carries a restriction. PerfuMate checks your formula against the 51st Amendment as you build, including the same molecule arriving from several naturals at once. What that covers, and what it does not.

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Which materials are closest to Holy Basil Essential Oil?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

What can replace Holy Basil 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.

  • Clove (F-TEC) 47% + Parsley Seed Essential Oil 53%
    carries Aromatic herbal, Clove spicy, Herbal green, Warm spicy. Anisic herbal; Clove (F-TEC) brings the Clove spicy side (47%); Parsley Seed Essential Oil brings the Herbal green side (53%)
    74%
  • Clove (F-TEC) 48% + Dill weed Essential Oil 52%
    carries Aromatic herbal, Clove spicy, Herbal green, Balsamic resinous. Anisic herbal; Warm spicy; Clove (F-TEC) brings the Clove spicy side (48%); Dill weed Essential Oil brings the Herbal green side (52%); lasts about 3.6x longer on paper
    73%
  • Clove (F-TEC) 35% + Dill weed Essential Oil 30% + Herboxane 35%
    carries Aromatic herbal, Clove spicy, Herbal green, Warm spicy. Anisic herbal; Clove (F-TEC) brings the Clove spicy side (35%); Dill weed Essential Oil brings the Herbal green side (30%); Herboxane brings the Aromatic herbal side (35%); lasts about 2.5x longer on paper
    77%
  • Clove (F-TEC) 49% + Curry Leaf Essential Oil 51%
    carries Aromatic herbal, Clove spicy, Warm spicy, Balsamic resinous. Anisic herbal; Herbal green; Clove (F-TEC) brings the Clove spicy side (49%); Curry Leaf Essential Oil brings the Leafy green side (51%)
    71%
  • Dill weed Essential Oil 63% + Eugenyl Benzoate 37%
    carries Clove spicy, Herbal green, Warm spicy, Balsamic resinous. Aromatic herbal; Anisic herbal; Dill weed Essential Oil brings the Herbal green side (63%); Eugenyl Benzoate brings the Clove spicy side (37%); lasts about 6.6x longer on paper
    71%

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Holy Basil Essential Oil

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