CADE OIL

Chemical properties

Yellow oil. Soluble in alcohol.

Chemical properties

Cade oil is identical to juniper tar, obtained by destructive distillation of the wood from Jeniperus oxycedrus. The oil usually is rectified under vacuum to improve color and solubility. The cade oil used in perfumery is usually a rectified oil.

Chemical properties

Juniperus oxycedrus is a branched tree or shrub, native to southern Europe. It has linear-subulate, prickly-pointed leaves. It flowers in axillary catkins, and has red, round berries much larger than J. comminum (common juniper). The part used is the wood portion.

Physical properties

Rectified cade oil is a clear orange-brown to dark-brown oily liquid with an intense, tar-like, smoky, phenolic odor.

The Uses of CADE OIL

Use of Juniper tar in perfumery is limited to situations where a smoky leathery, woody phenolic, dry and warm note is called for in forest notes, leather bases, fougeres, pine for men's fragrances and in the imitation of certain essential oils and oakmoss; has certain disinfectant properties for which it can be utilized in soap perfumes, for example combined with thyme, origanum, elove, and similar phenolic oils (if the discoloration creates no serious problem) and with cassia oil, Melaleuca alternifolia and Ocotea pretiosa; in the flavoring of meat and seafood, to whieh it imparts the smoke note previously obtained in a regular smokehouse; in eczema and psoriatk medieations.

Definition

Chief constituent is cadinene, a sesquiterpene.

Essential oil composition

The main constituents include d-cadinene, a sesquiterpene, l-cadinol and dimethylnaphthalene.