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Valerian Root Essential Oil

CAS 8008-88-6  ·  Natural  ·  Base note
Earthy 46%Woody 23%Animalic 15%Resinous 8%Herbal 8%
dry 55%rooty 38%medicinal 8%

What does Valerian Root Essential Oil smell like?

Musty rooty earth with a sour cheesy-animalic funk from free isovaleric acid, resting on a warm camphoraceous-balsamic bornyl acetate body. Funkier and more sweat-driven than spikenard, which is drier and spicier; a trace-level fixative that gives leather, chypre and amber bases a living, unwashed depth.

earthywoodyanimalicsweatybalsamicwarm

Impact

7 of 10

Subfamily

Vetiver rooty

Which families does Valerian Root Essential Oil belong to?

Earthy · 46%

rooty, soil, mushroom

Woody · 23%

dry

Animalic · 15%

sweaty

Resinous · 8%

balsamic

Herbal · 8%

medicinal, camphor

What is Valerian Root Essential Oil made of?

An estimated breakdown, not a certificate of analysis, and it is what PerfuMate sums when it checks a formula: a molecule arriving from three naturals at once is counted once rather than missed three times. Paste your own supplier analysis and it takes over.

ConstituentCASShare
Bornyl acetate 76-49-3 25%
Camphene 79-92-5 15%
alpha-Pinene 80-56-8 8%
Valeranone 6%
Isovaleric acid 503-74-2 5%
Valerenal 3%
beta-Caryophyllene 87-44-5 3%
Borneol 507-70-0 2%
Limonene 138-86-3 1%

What else is Valerian Root Essential Oil called?

Valerian Oil  ·  Valeriana officinalis root oil  ·  Valerian rhizome oil  ·  Indian valerian oil  ·  Valerian root

Which materials are closest to Valerian Root Essential Oil?

Ranked by how many olfactive sub-categories they share with Valerian Root Essential Oil, not alphabetically.

How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

What this page carries, beside what the whole catalog carries. Every figure on the right is counted from the file the app ships, at the moment this page was built, so it cannot drift from the product the way a sentence somebody typed would.

Valerian Root Essential Oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
5
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
5
Constituent breakdown
9 molecules

All 1,581 materials

Described in words
every one
Impact rating out of 10
every one
Classified into an olfactive family
1,547
Carrying several families, in order
1,465
Sub-category assignments
7,405 across 214 pairs
A top / heart / base band
1,532
Hours on a blotter
441
CAS number
1,153
Supplier synonyms
4,308 names
Constituent breakdowns
588

And the limits, because they decide how far the rest can be trusted. 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 428 materials carrying no CAS number the 127 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.

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