VIRGINIA CEDARWOOD ESSENTIAL OIL – A dry, soft, woody essential oil with a hint of pencil, warm sawdust, and earthy root.

A dry, earthy, woody pencil fragrance. It has light amber notes. The scent is fresh, autumnal, and woodsy, dry-woody, soft, with hints of incense, sweet-ambery, with a light leathery nuance and a subtle hint of wood and wind. Widely used in woodsy compositions to impart a woody, dry-amber effect. Standard dosage for a delicate aroma application: 3-4%. It pairs well with bergamot, clary sage, neroli, rose, juniper, sandalwood, cypress, vetiver, patchouli, and benzoin. Eastern red cedar is a large, slow-growing evergreen tree that reaches 30 meters in height. It grows on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains in North America. A member of the Cupressaceae family, it shares botanical characteristics with juniper (genus Juniperus) and its relative, the cypress, as its evergreen foliage consists of overlapping scales and needles. The fruits are reddish-purple berries, similar to juniper berries. The red-brown core of the wood has given the cedar its name "Red Cedar." Eastern Red Cedar essential oil is obtained from shavings and sawdust from American woodworking factories. The essential oil's sweet, woody scent is typical of the cedar notes of Atlas cedar, but enriched with a hint of pencil. The dry wood texture and the fixative effect of Virginia cedar oil make it practically universal in use.