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Star anise Essential Oil

CAS 68952-43-2  ·  Natural  ·  Heart note  ·  Anisic

Impact

7 of 10

Substantivity

2.8 days on a blotter

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Herbal 67%Sweet 33%
anisic 67%sugary 33%

What does Star anise Essential Oil smell like?

Intensely sweet, licorice-anisic with a warm, slightly herbal-fennel roundness, dominated by trans-anethole. The go-to natural for licorice and anise effects in gourmands, ambers and aromatic fougères.

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What is Star anise 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
trans-Anethole 4180-23-8 88%
Limonene 138-86-3 4%
Estragole 140-67-0 3%
Linalool 78-70-6 1%
p-Methoxybenzaldehyde 123-11-5 1%

What else is Star anise Essential Oil called?

Star anise oil  ·  Illicium verum oil  ·  Anise star oil  ·  Badiane oil  ·  Illicium verum fruit oil  ·  Star anise

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

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Which materials are closest to Star anise Essential Oil?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

What can replace Star anise 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.

  • Anise Seed Essential Oil
    carries Anisic herbal, Sugary sweet
    84%
  • Toscanol closer in spirit than in chemistry
    Anisic herbal; Sugary sweet; a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it
    56%
  • Toscanol 60% + Ethyl Anisate 40% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    Anisic herbal; Sugary sweet; Toscanol brings the Anisic herbal side (60%); Ethyl Anisate brings the Anisic herbal side (40%); a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it; lasts about 2.3x shorter on paper
    56%
  • Toscanol 52% + Canthoxal 48% closer in spirit than in chemistry
    Anisic herbal; Sugary sweet; Toscanol brings the Anisic herbal side (52%); Canthoxal brings the Anisic herbal side (48%); a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it
    56%
  • Methyl Anisate closer in spirit than in chemistry
    Anisic herbal; Sugary sweet; a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it; lasts about 3.6x shorter on paper
    51%

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Star anise Essential Oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
2
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
2.8 days
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
6
Constituent breakdown
5 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.