Australian Blue Cypress

Note Profile

Botanical 3 perfumes

Drag to turn On Note Island

About

Steam-distilled oil of the Australian blue cypress tree. A sweet, resinous base wood with a honeyed-smoky dryness.

Also Known As

Blue Cypress

Scent Profile

Australian blue cypress smells of dry, woody resin, closer to sandalwood than to cypress in its sweet, creamy woodiness. A honeyed sweetness runs through it, like honeyed pine, sitting over a resinous, amber warmth at the base. It opens fresh and green, and that green thread stays faintly present throughout. A light smoky edge appears late, and a drier, almost mineral transparency shows through at low strength.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~24h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy, Amber · Musk · Leather

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

WorldSee it in Note Island

ScentArt

What is ScentArt?

Origin

Callitris intratropica, a conifer of northern Australia. NCC Cosmetics states the oil is 'steam distilled from the leaves and branches of the native blue cypress tree'. The oil is famous for its blue colour, which is chemistry rather than smell: Rising Sun Botanicals gives its own batch as '0.61% chamazulene and 0.31% guaiazulene', and Premiere Peau attributes the blue to 'high guaiazulene content'. Despite the trade name the tree is a different genus from Cupressus sempervirens, the cypress of Mediterranean perfumery.

Usage in Perfumery

A base note and a fixative. Premiere Peau calls it 'a base note' that 'functions as a fixative in woody and incense compositions', NCC says it 'works beautifully as a base note or fixative, helping to anchor lighter fragrances', and Rising Sun says it 'has a fixative effect that is valued by perfumers'. Premiere Peau places it 'alongside vetiver, patchouli, and oud in dark-woody accords' and adds that 'at low dosage, it adds a clean, almost metallic-woody transparency'. Attested 13 times on Fragrantica and absent from the other note list.