Clary Sage Oil, France

Clary Sage Oil, France, An Indepth Look:

Clary Sage oil is a colorless to pale yellow or olive-colored liquid, sweet-herbaceous, tenacious in odor, soft and somewhat reminiscent of [ambergris] in its bitter-sweet undertone. Apart from the initial linalyl acetate-linalool notes, there is a very characteristic note in the odour of clary sage oil. The note remains in the dryout odour on a perfume blotter. Some perfumers describe it as tobacco-like, others as balsamic or tea-like.

Clary sage oil is used in perfumery as an individual body or as a modifier for bergamot oil, lavender, etc. and for [ambergris] notes with labdanum extracts, cistus oil, olibanum resinoid, cinnamic alcohok, nitromusks or synthetic ambergris materials, etc.; in chypre bases, fougères, Oriental and “tabac”-type fragrances and in modern fantasy creations with aldehydic notes or even in woody bases.

In the classical type of cologne perfumes it lends unique tenacity and acts as a very fragrant fixative, particularly in combinaiton with labdanum products and musks. It blends beautifully with coriander, cardamom, citrus oils, avandin and lavender, geranium oil, sandalwood oil, eugenol and derivatives, cedarwood derivatives, methylionones, phenylethyl alcohol, etc.

^{S. Arctander. Perfume and flavor Materials of Natural Origin, Carol Stream: Allured Publishing Corporation, 2008, pp. 569–570.}