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Olibanum Essential Oil

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

Impact

6 of 10

Substantivity

12 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Resinous 55%Spicy 27%Citrus 18%
incense 36%black-pepper 27%balsamic 18%lemon 18%

What does Olibanum Essential Oil smell like?

Fresh, sparkling frankincense: lemony-terpenic and peppery opening (alpha-pinene, limonene, octyl acetate) over a resinous, balsamic, old-church body. Bridges citrus tops into resinous bases; essential in incense, amber and modern 'mineral' compositions.

incenseresinousbalsamicpepperycitrusfresh

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What is Olibanum 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 5%
p-Cymene 99-87-6 4%
Octyl acetate 112-14-1 4%
Linalool 78-70-6 2%
Methyl eugenol 93-15-2 0.3%

What else is Olibanum Essential Oil called?

Olibanum oil  ·  Boswellia carterii oil  ·  Encens oil  ·  Boswellia oil  ·  Olibanum  ·  Frankincense Carterii

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Published formulas using Olibanum Essential Oil

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What blends well with Olibanum Essential Oil?

Read from the published formulas: beside Olibanum Essential Oil in at least two of them.

What can replace Olibanum 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, Balsamic resinous, Lemon citrus. Black pepper spicy; the same oil in another grade (same CAS); lasts about 14x shorter on paper
    64%
  • Frankincense Essential Oil 65% + Black Pepper (F-TEC) 35%
    carries Balsamic resinous. Incense resinous; Black pepper spicy; Lemon citrus; Frankincense Essential Oil brings the Incense resinous side (65%); Black Pepper (F-TEC) brings the Black pepper spicy side (35%); lasts about 2.2x shorter on paper
    70%
  • Frankincense Essential Oil 50% + Black Pepper (F-TEC) 25% + Elemi Essential Oil 25%
    carries Balsamic resinous, Lemon citrus. Incense resinous; Black pepper spicy; Frankincense Essential Oil brings the Incense resinous side (50%); Black Pepper (F-TEC) brings the Black pepper spicy side (25%); Elemi Essential Oil brings the Elemi resinous side (25%); lasts about 2.8x shorter on paper
    74%
  • Elemi Essential Oil 39% + Frankincense Essential Oil 61%
    carries Incense resinous, Lemon citrus. Black pepper spicy; Balsamic resinous; Elemi Essential Oil brings the Elemi resinous side (39%); Frankincense Essential Oil brings the Incense resinous side (61%); lasts about 2.3x shorter on paper
    69%
  • Frankincense Essential Oil (Boswellia sacra) 77% + Black Pepper (F-TEC) 23%
    carries Black pepper spicy, Balsamic resinous. Incense resinous; Lemon citrus; Frankincense Essential Oil (Boswellia sacra) brings the Incense resinous side (77%); Black Pepper (F-TEC) brings the Black pepper spicy side (23%); lasts about 15x shorter on paper
    68%

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Which materials are closest to Olibanum Essential Oil?

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Olibanum Essential Oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
12 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
6
Constituent breakdown
8 molecules

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Described in words
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Impact rating out of 10
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Classified into an olfactive family
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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.