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Vetiver Bourbon Essential Oil

CAS 8016-96-4  ·  Natural  ·  Base note  ·  Vetiver rooty

Impact

7 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Woody 50%Smoky 25%Earthy 17%Gourmand 8%
smoky 42%vetiver 33%rooty 22%praline 3%

What does Vetiver Bourbon Essential Oil smell like?

The Reunion island quality of vetiver: rootier, smokier and more chocolate-earthy than Haitian, with a praline warmth prized in fine fragrance. A distinct product from generic vetiver, not a substitute.

vetiverwoodysmokyearthychocolatenutty

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What is Vetiver Bourbon 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
Khusimol 16223-63-5 15%
beta-Vetivone 18444-79-6 5%
alpha-Vetivone 15764-04-2 4%
Nootkatone 4674-50-4 1%

What else is Vetiver Bourbon Essential Oil called?

Vetiver Bourbon  ·  Vetiveria zizanioides Reunion

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

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What can replace Vetiver Bourbon 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.

  • Vetiver Essential Oil
    carries Vetiver woody, Smoky woody, Rooty earthy. Smoke smoky; Chocolate gourmand; Praline gourmand; the same oil in another grade (same CAS)
    76%
  • Vetiver Essential Oil 67% + Vetikone 33%
    carries Vetiver woody, Smoke smoky, Smoky woody, Rooty earthy. Chocolate gourmand; Praline gourmand; Vetiver Essential Oil brings the Vetiver woody side (67%); Vetikone brings the Vetiver woody side (33%)
    78%
  • Vetiver Essential Oil 74% + Vetiver Absolute 26%
    carries Vetiver woody, Smoky woody, Rooty earthy. Smoke smoky; Chocolate gourmand; Praline gourmand; Vetiver Essential Oil brings the Vetiver woody side (74%); Vetiver Absolute brings the Vetiver woody side (26%)
    77%
  • Vetiver Essential Oil 85% + Guaiacwood acetate 16%
    carries Vetiver woody, Smoke smoky, Smoky woody, Rooty earthy. Chocolate gourmand; Praline gourmand; Vetiver Essential Oil brings the Vetiver woody side (85%); Guaiacwood acetate brings the Smoky woody side (15%)
    76%
  • Vetiver Essential Oil 83% + Oakwood CO2 (LMR) 17%
    carries Vetiver woody, Smoke smoky, Smoky woody, Rooty earthy. Chocolate gourmand; Praline gourmand; Vetiver Essential Oil brings the Vetiver woody side (83%); Oakwood CO2 (LMR) brings the Smoky woody side (17%)
    75%

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Which materials are closest to Vetiver Bourbon Essential Oil?

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Vetiver Bourbon Essential Oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
7
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
2
Constituent breakdown
4 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.