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Wormwood Essential Oil

CAS 8008-93-3  ·  Natural  ·  Top note  ·  Aromatic herb

Impact

8 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Herbal 67%Green 33%
aromatic 70%camphor 18%anisic 12%

What does Wormwood Essential Oil smell like?

Intensely bitter green absinthe herbaceousness, sharp, camphoraceous and slightly sweet-anisic in the dryout. Trace doses give an absinthe twist to green and fougere accords; thujone content demands caution.

herbalgreencamphoraceousanisicaromatic

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What is Wormwood 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
alpha-Thujone 546-80-5 25%
beta-Thujone 471-15-8 10%
Sabinene 3387-41-5 5%
Myrcene 123-35-3 3%
Linalool 78-70-6 2%
Camphor 76-22-2 2%

What else is Wormwood Essential Oil called?

Wormwood oil  ·  Artemisia absinthium oil  ·  Absinthe oil  ·  Wormwood

Restricted under IFRA. This material carries a restriction. PerfuMate checks your formula against the 51st Amendment as you build, including the same molecule arriving from several naturals at once. What that covers, and what it does not.

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Which materials are closest to Wormwood Essential Oil?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

What can replace Wormwood 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.

  • Basil (F-TEC)
    carries Aromatic herbal, Herbal green, Anisic herbal. Camphor herbal; a molecule standing in for a natural: the rest of the oil does not come with it
    75%
  • Basil (F-TEC) 60% + Cedarleaf Essential Oil 40%
    carries Aromatic herbal, Herbal green, Anisic herbal. Camphor herbal; Basil (F-TEC) brings the Aromatic herbal side (60%); Cedarleaf Essential Oil brings the Camphor herbal side (40%)
    89%
  • Basil (F-TEC) 74% + Ravintsara Essential Oil 26%
    carries Aromatic herbal, Herbal green, Anisic herbal. Camphor herbal; Basil (F-TEC) brings the Aromatic herbal side (74%); Ravintsara Essential Oil brings the Camphor herbal side (26%)
    88%
  • Basil (F-TEC) 73% + Armoise Essential Oil 27%
    carries Aromatic herbal, Herbal green, Anisic herbal. Camphor herbal; Basil (F-TEC) brings the Aromatic herbal side (73%); Armoise Essential Oil brings the Herbal green side (27%)
    86%
  • Basil (F-TEC) 73% + Rosemary Essential Oil Verbenone Type 27%
    carries Aromatic herbal, Herbal green, Anisic herbal. Camphor herbal; Basil (F-TEC) brings the Aromatic herbal side (73%); Rosemary Essential Oil Verbenone Type brings the Aromatic herbal side (27%)
    85%

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Wormwood Essential Oil

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
2
Sub-categories under them
3
Impact, out of 10
8
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
yes
Supplier and trade synonyms
4
Constituent breakdown
6 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.