Ingredients · Florals · dry-down

Cananga oil

Say itkuh-NANG-guh oil

Heavy, woody-leathery, balsamic ylang with less floral sparkle.

What it is

Natural oil from single complete steam distillation of cananga flowers.

Where it comes from

Java, Indonesia

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Robust ylang-type floral for leather accords, fougères and soaps; survives alkaline bases.

Worth knowing

Same species as ylang-ylang but a different variety, distilled in one run instead of fractions.

Rules

Limited. Covered by IFRA's ylang-ylang sensitizer standard

Also called

Cananga odorata var. macrophylla oil; Java cananga