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Spikenard Essential Oil

CAS 8022-22-8  ·  Natural  ·  Base note  ·  Vetiver rooty

Impact

6 of 10

Substantivity

3.5 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Earthy 46%Woody 23%Animalic 15%Spicy 8%Green 8%
mossy 62%dry 33%warm 5%

What does Spikenard Essential Oil smell like?

Heavy, earthy-woody oil with a musty, animalic, spicy-rooty and slightly valerian-like character. A deep, unusual base note for amber and incense accords. Amphora Aromatics' Indian spikenard carries an IFRA 51 certificate with no limit in category 4 (40% in a deodorant, 80% in intimate products, not approved for lips or mouth), the one material with a standard being cedrene at 0.2%; the allergen declaration lists pinene 10%, limonene 0.2%, terpineol 0.2%, linalool 0.06%, terpinolene 0.04% and alpha-terpinene 0.03%. Avena Lab's sheet classifies the oil as a mild skin and eye irritant and a skin sensitiser (H316, H320, H317).

earthywoodyanimalicspicymossy

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What is Spikenard Essential Oil made of?

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ConstituentCASShare
alpha-Pinene 80-56-8 10%
Cedrene 469-61-4 0.2%
Limonene 5989-27-5 0.2%
Terpineol 98-55-5 0.2%
Linalool 78-70-6 0.06%
Terpinolene 586-62-9 0.04%
alpha-Terpinene 99-86-5 0.03%

What else is Spikenard Essential Oil called?

Spikenard oil  ·  Nardostachys jatamansi oil  ·  Nard oil  ·  Spikenard

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Which materials are closest to Spikenard Essential Oil?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

What can replace Spikenard 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.

  • Root (F-TEC)
    carries Mossy earthy, Rooty earthy, Dry woody, Mossy woody. Musky animalic; Sweaty animalic; Warm spicy; a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it; lasts about 3.3x longer on paper
    61%
  • Root (F-TEC) 66% + Asparagus Absolute 34%
    carries Mossy earthy, Rooty earthy, Dry woody, Mossy woody. Musky animalic; Sweaty animalic; Warm spicy; Root (F-TEC) brings the Mossy earthy side (66%); Asparagus Absolute brings the Dry woody side (34%); lasts about 3.0x longer on paper
    69%
  • Root (F-TEC) 70% + Valerian Root Essential Oil 30%
    carries Mossy earthy, Rooty earthy, Dry woody, Mossy woody. Musky animalic; Sweaty animalic; Warm spicy; Root (F-TEC) brings the Mossy earthy side (70%); Valerian Root Essential Oil brings the Rooty earthy side (30%); lasts about 3.3x longer on paper
    69%
  • Evernyl 56% + Valerian Root Essential Oil 44%
    carries Mossy earthy, Rooty earthy, Dry woody, Mossy woody. Musky animalic; Warm spicy; Evernyl brings the Mossy earthy side (56%); Valerian Root Essential Oil brings the Rooty earthy side (44%); lasts about 3.1x longer on paper
    69%
  • Oakmoss Concrete 50% + Valerian Root Essential Oil 50%
    carries Mossy earthy, Rooty earthy, Dry woody, Mossy woody. Musky animalic; Warm spicy; Oakmoss Concrete brings the Mossy earthy side (50%); Valerian Root Essential Oil brings the Rooty earthy side (50%); lasts about 4.0x longer on paper
    69%

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Spikenard Essential Oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
5
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
6
Hours on a blotter
3.5 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
4
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.