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Ingredients · Spices · heart note

Cinnamon leaf oil

Clove-like, spicy and slightly woody, with only a hint of cinnamon.

What it is
Natural oil from leaves of Cinnamomum verum.
Where it comes from
Sri Lanka, Madagascar
When you smell it
Heart: the first hours.
What perfumers do with it
An economical clove-cinnamon note for spicy accords and carnation effects.
Worth knowing
It is mostly eugenol, the clove molecule, so it smells more like clove than cinnamon.
Rules
Limited. Limited through its eugenol content (IFRA; EU label-declared allergen).
Also called
Cinnamomum verum leaf oil

Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.