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Lesser Galangal Essential Oil

CAS 8024-40-6 · Natural · Heart note · Hot spice

Spicy 67%Herbal 33%

ginger 44%camphor 33%black-pepper 22%

What does Lesser 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. Distinct from greater galangal (Alpinia galanga); unqualified galangal-root names are not aliases for this material.

spicypepperywarmherbalcamphoraceousfresh

Impact

6 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench

What is Lesser Galangal 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.

Constituent	CAS	Share
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 Lesser Galangal Essential Oil called?

Lesser Galangal · Lesser Galangal EO · Alpinia officinarum oil

What can replace Lesser Galangal 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.

Greater Galangal Essential Oil

carries Ginger spicy. Camphor herbal; Black pepper spicy; the same molecule, sold under another name

62%
Greater Galangal Essential Oil 67% + Cubeb Essential Oil 33%

carries Ginger spicy. Camphor herbal; Black pepper spicy; Greater Galangal Essential Oil brings the Ginger spicy side (67%); Cubeb Essential Oil brings the Black pepper spicy side (33%); lasts about 2.7x longer on paper

67%
Greater Galangal Essential Oil 73% + Poivrol 27%

carries Ginger spicy. Camphor herbal; Black pepper spicy; Greater Galangal Essential Oil brings the Ginger spicy side (73%); Poivrol brings the Black pepper spicy side (27%)

64%
Greater Galangal Essential Oil 55% + Verbenone 20% + Cubeb Essential Oil 25%

carries Camphor herbal. Ginger spicy; Black pepper spicy; Greater Galangal Essential Oil brings the Ginger spicy side (55%); Verbenone brings the Camphor herbal side (20%); Cubeb Essential Oil brings the Black pepper spicy side (25%); lasts about 2.2x longer on paper

67%
Greater Galangal Essential Oil 77% + Rotundone 23%

carries Ginger spicy. Camphor herbal; Black pepper spicy; Greater Galangal Essential Oil brings the Ginger spicy side (77%); Rotundone brings the Black pepper spicy side (23%)

63%

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Which materials are closest to Lesser Galangal Essential Oil?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

Cubeb Essential Oil Greater Galangal Essential Oil Plai Essential Oil 4-Vinylguaiacol beta-Caryophyllene Betel Leaf Essential Oil Black Cardamom Essential Oil Black Pepper (F-TEC)Black Pepper CO2 Extract Black Pepper Essential Oil Cardamom CO2 Extract Cardamom Essential Oil

How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

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

Lesser 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: 3
Constituent breakdown: 6 molecules

All 2,062 materials

Described in words: every one
Impact rating out of 10: every one
Classified into an olfactive family: 2,023
Carrying several families, in order: 1,931
Sub-category assignments: 9,326 across 227 pairs
A top / heart / base band: 2,008
Hours on a blotter: 832
CAS number: 1,527
Supplier synonyms: 5,363 names
Constituent breakdowns: 706

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 535 materials carrying no CAS number the 227 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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