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Nutmeg Essential Oil

CAS 8008-45-5  ·  Natural  ·  Top note  ·  Warm spice

Impact

6 of 10

Substantivity

2.2 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Spicy 50%Woody 25%Herbal 17%Sweet 8%
nutmeg 58%warm 17%medicinal 11%sugary 8%aromatic 6%

What does Nutmeg Essential Oil smell like?

Warm, sweet-spicy and terpenic with woody, slightly medicinal facets and the characteristic drowsy nutmeg warmth. Classic in masculine fougeres, colognes, spiced ambers and eggnog-style gourmands; restricted for safrole/methyl eugenol content.

spicynutmegwarmwoodymedicinalsweet

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What is Nutmeg 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
Limonene 138-86-3 3%
Safrole 94-59-7 2%
Methyl eugenol 93-15-2 0.8%
Estragole 140-67-0 0.5%

What else is Nutmeg Essential Oil called?

Nutmeg Oil  ·  Myristica fragrans seed oil  ·  Mace-nutmeg oil  ·  Myristica fragrans oil  ·  Nutmeg

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.

How much Nutmeg Essential Oil can go in a perfume (IFRA limit) Check a formula with Nutmeg Essential Oil in the free IFRA calculator

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Published formulas using Nutmeg Essential Oil

Published formulas: PerfuMate's house accords and formulas members chose to publish. The figure is its share of the concentrate.

What can replace Nutmeg 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.

  • Terpinen-4-ol
    carries Dry woody, Medicinal herbal, Aromatic herbal. Nutmeg spicy; Warm spicy; Sugary sweet; a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it; lasts about 2.7x shorter on paper
    63%
  • Terpinen-4-ol 57% + Mace Essential Oil 43%
    carries Nutmeg spicy, Warm spicy, Medicinal herbal, Aromatic herbal. Dry woody; Sugary sweet; Terpinen-4-ol brings the Medicinal herbal side (57%); Mace Essential Oil brings the Nutmeg spicy side (43%)
    75%
  • Terpinen-4-ol 45% + Marjoram Essential Oil sweet 20% + Mace Essential Oil 35%
    carries Nutmeg spicy, Warm spicy, Medicinal herbal, Aromatic herbal. Dry woody; Sugary sweet; Terpinen-4-ol brings the Medicinal herbal side (45%); Marjoram Essential Oil sweet brings the Aromatic herbal side (20%); Mace Essential Oil brings the Nutmeg spicy side (35%)
    76%
  • Terpinen-4-ol 74% + Ginger Essential Oil 26%
    carries Dry woody, Warm spicy, Medicinal herbal, Aromatic herbal. Nutmeg spicy; Sugary sweet; Terpinen-4-ol brings the Medicinal herbal side (74%); Ginger Essential Oil brings the Ginger spicy side (26%); lasts about 2.9x shorter on paper
    71%
  • Terpinen-4-ol 50% + Sabinene 10% + Mace Essential Oil 40%
    carries Nutmeg spicy, Warm spicy, Medicinal herbal, Aromatic herbal. Dry woody; Sugary sweet; Terpinen-4-ol brings the Medicinal herbal side (50%); Sabinene brings the Black pepper spicy side (10%); Mace Essential Oil brings the Nutmeg spicy side (40%)
    75%

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Which materials are closest to Nutmeg 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.

Nutmeg Essential Oil

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

All 2,211 materials

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.