Product Overview
Our organic Cinnamon Bark has an extremely powerful, very warm, diffusive, spicy-sweet aroma with a persistent dryness and warm, lasting powdery note in the drydown. The sweetness of Cinnamon adds warmth and a spicy appeal to perfume compositions when used in trace amounts and is often used in Amber and chypre perfumes to add a spicy, warm and sweet touch.
Cinnamomum zeylanicum is indigenous to wet tropical regions of Sri Lanka, India and Southeast Asia. The scented, bushy evergreen has an aromatic bark that is removed from the young shoots, then cleaned and dried into golden brown aromatic quills.[1]
Cinnamon is a well-known the world over for its extensive use in the realm of spices and in natural perfumery. It can add warmth to dry woody and spicy Ambers, and also adds a gourmand note to sweet, accords as it has the familiar association of freshly baked goods. It can also be used sparingly in florals as well as in fougère and aromatic herbal perfume formulas. We strongly emphasize that because perfumes are topically applied, potential skin irritancy needs to be kept in mind when Cinnamon Bark is incorporated into perfume compositions.
The essential oil is perfect for use in a diffuser, particularly around the holiday season. However, please note that Cinnamon Bark oil is a known skin irritant and must be used with respect and care if needed for topical applications. Please be sure to see Blending Suggestions and Safety Considerations.
1 Rhind, Jennifer Peace. Fragrance and Wellbeing – Plant Aromatics and Their Influence on the Psyche, 2014, p. 217.
