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Spearmint Essential Oil

CAS 8008-79-5  ·  Natural  ·  Top note  ·  Minty

Impact

7 of 10

Substantivity

36 hours on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Herbal 55%Sweet 27%Green 18%
minty 36%aromatic 36%sugary 27%

What does Spearmint Essential Oil smell like?

Sweet chewing-gum mint dominated by l-carvone, warmer and less icy than peppermint with a green herbaceous edge. Small doses freshen fougère topnotes and pair beautifully with lavender and patchouli.

mintysweetgreenherbalfresh

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What is Spearmint 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
Carvone 99-49-0 60%
Limonene 138-86-3 15%

What else is Spearmint Essential Oil called?

Spearmint oil  ·  Mentha spicata oil  ·  Spearmint

How much Spearmint Essential Oil can go in a perfume (IFRA limit)

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Published formulas using Spearmint 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 Spearmint 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.

  • l-Carvone
    carries Minty herbal, Sugary sweet, Herbal green. Aromatic herbal; a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it; lasts about 4.5x shorter on paper
    73%
  • l-Carvone 71% + Juniper Essential Oil 29%
    carries Minty herbal, Sugary sweet, Herbal green. Aromatic herbal; l-Carvone brings the Minty herbal side (71%); Juniper Essential Oil brings the Aromatic herbal side (29%); lasts about 4.9x shorter on paper
    85%
  • l-Carvone 72% + Tarragon Essential Oil 28%
    carries Minty herbal, Sugary sweet, Herbal green. Aromatic herbal; l-Carvone brings the Minty herbal side (72%); Tarragon Essential Oil brings the Anisic herbal side (28%); lasts about 4.3x shorter on paper
    84%
  • l-Carvone 71% + Wormwood Essential Oil 29%
    carries Minty herbal, Sugary sweet, Herbal green. Aromatic herbal; l-Carvone brings the Minty herbal side (71%); Wormwood Essential Oil brings the Aromatic herbal side (29%); lasts about 4.7x shorter on paper
    84%
  • l-Carvone 74% + Fennel Essential Oil sweet 26%
    carries Minty herbal, Sugary sweet, Herbal green. Aromatic herbal; l-Carvone brings the Minty herbal side (74%); Fennel Essential Oil sweet brings the Anisic herbal side (26%); lasts about 4.9x shorter on paper
    83%

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Which materials are closest to Spearmint Essential Oil?

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Spearmint Essential Oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
3
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
36 hours
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
3
Constituent breakdown
2 molecules

All 2,211 materials

Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
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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.