Jatamansi Spikenard Oil | Earthy Woody Essential Oil

Product Name

JATAMASHI OIL / SPIKENARD OIL

🟢 Difficulty: Intermediate

⏳ Lasting: High

🌸 Note: Base

Description

Jatamashi Oil, also known as Spikenard Oil or Jatamansi Oil, is a distinctive natural essential oil with a deep earthy, woody, musky and slightly sweet character. Its complex aroma can also show warm, rooty, herbal and resinous facets, giving it a rich natural presence in fragrance compositions.

In perfumery, Spikenard Oil is valued as a base-note material and natural modifier. It can bring depth and texture to woody, earthy and oriental fragrances while adding a soft, musky-rooty character. Its unusual profile makes it particularly interesting for perfumers working with natural materials and traditional attar-style compositions.

Jatamashi Oil works especially well in woody, earthy, oriental, resinous and natural perfume accords. It blends naturally with sandalwood, vetiver, patchouli and frankincense, while its musky character can complement rose and other floral materials. Used at low levels, it can provide subtle depth; at higher levels, its distinctive rooty character becomes more prominent.

Odor Profile

• Earthy

• Woody

• Rooty

• Musky

• Herbal

• Warm

• Slightly sweet

• Resinous

Recommended Formulation Level (Educational guideline only)

• Trace: 0.05–0.20%

• General use: 0.20–1.00%

• High-impact accords: 1.00–3.00%

These are formulation guidelines for perfumers and are not IFRA limits.

Works Well With

• Sandalwood

• Vetiver

• Patchouli

• Cedarwood

• Oud

• Cypriol Oil

• Frankincense

• Myrrh

• Labdanum

• Rose

• Ambrette

• Benzoin

Common Applications

• Fine Fragrance

• Attars

• Natural Perfumery

• Incense

• Candles

• Soap

• Body Care

• Home Fragrance

• Woody Fragrance Accords

• Oriental Fragrances

Perfumers' Tip

Use Jatamashi Oil to add a deep, natural rooty texture to woody and oriental compositions. Start with a low dosage and allow it to develop in the dry-down, where its earthy and musky facets become more integrated with woods and resins.