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Pinaceae

2 published monographs fall under this facet. A facet here is not a taxonomy label but a safety clue: plants in the same family often share cross-reactivity risk, and the same botanical part often shares extraction and oxidation behaviour.

Monographs in this facet

Atlas cedarwood — Cedrus atlantica

Cedrus atlantica

Atlas cedarwood

Pinaceae · wood · ceiling 3%

  • Himachalene / cedrol sesquiterpene profile

Cedarwood is the workhorse base note: cheap, stable, hard to over-dose in practice, and almost never the reason a blend goes wrong. It is also the…

Scots pine — Pinus sylvestris

Pinus sylvestris

Scots pine

Pinaceae · needle · ceiling 3%

  • alpha-Pinene / carene type

Scots pine is the conifer most widely sold as "pine needle oil" in Europe, and it is the cheapest way to put a forest note into a blend. It is also…

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