Caraway Seed Essential Oil
Caraway Seed Essential Oil is a warm, spicy, and slightly sweet aroma with earthy undertones. Perfect for crafters, it’s ideal for adding a unique, comforting touch to candles, soaps, and diffusers. Known for its digestive and soothing properties, this oil is a versatile addition to any project. Blends beautifully with fennel, citrus oils, and spices for a warm, herbal scent that evokes coziness and balance.
Ambiance: Warm / Spicy / Herbal / Grounding
Please note
This is a pure, undiluted essential oil designed for crafting end products such as candles, diffusers, soaps, bath products, and other personal care items. Essential oils are highly concentrated and should not be applied directly to the skin without proper dilution in a carrier oil. All our essential oils are measured in grams, not milliliters. Bottle fill levels may vary due to differences in oil density, which affects volume.
For specific usage limits, please refer to the Caraway Seed Essential Oil IFRA guidelines or consult the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) included in the “Related Documents” tab. Compliance of the final product remains the responsibility of the manufacturer.
Packaging note: 10g testers are supplied in PET bottles for affordable evaluation and are not intended for long-term archival storage. Production sizes from 50g upwards are supplied in premium aluminium bottles for improved long-term protection. Read more
Olfactive Profile
- Note classification: Middle note
- Scent family: Spicy / Herbal / Aromatic / Seed-like
Caraway Seed Essential Oil has a warm, dry, spicy-herbal profile with aromatic, seed-like, slightly sweet, earthy, and lightly citrusy nuances. It feels drier and more savoury than sweet orange spice accords, less sweet than anise, and more herbal than cinnamon or clove. Its character is distinctive, culinary, and deeply aromatic, making it especially useful in spice, herbal, rustic, woody, fougere, amber, and natural aromatic compositions.
The opening is warm, sharp, and aromatic, while the drydown becomes drier, earthier, and more seed-like. Compared to brighter herbal oils, caraway brings more warmth and spice density, making it valuable when a formula needs a natural aromatic twist, a dry spicy heart, or a more rustic botanical character.
Technical Data & IFRA limits
- Product type: 100% pure essential oil
- Botanical name: Carum Carvi
- CAS number: 8000-42-8
- EC number: 288-921-6
- Plant part: Seeds
- Extraction method: Steam Distillation
- Origin: Not specified in the provided documents
- Flashpoint: 59°C
- Density: 0.9–0.965 g/cm³ at 20°C
- Main natural constituents: Naturally contains limonene and related spicy, seed-like, herbal, and terpenic aromatic constituents. Exact composition may vary by batch.
IFRA Maximum Usage Levels
- Candles: 26.15%
- Diffusers: 0.27%
- Perfumes: 0.09%
- Soaps: 0.27%
For full category-specific limits, refer to the Caraway Seed Essential Oil IFRA certificate available in the “Related Documents” tab.
Formulation & Creative Uses
Caraway Seed Essential Oil works as a warm spicy-herbal middle note. It adds dry aromatic warmth, seed-like texture, natural spice character, and a distinctive botanical depth to a formula, helping citrus, woody, amber, herbal, resinous, or rustic compositions feel more complex and grounded. It is especially useful when a blend needs a dry natural spice effect without the sweetness of cinnamon, clove, or vanilla-type materials.
Common applications
- Diffusers: Useful for warm, herbal, spicy, grounding, rustic, aromatic, and natural wellness-style blends, always within IFRA limits.
- Candles & wax melts: Adds dry spicy warmth, especially in autumn, spice market, herbal kitchen, rustic woods, amber spice, and botanical home fragrance compositions.
- Soaps: Brings a warm spicy-herbal character, with testing required for scent retention and process stability.
- Bath & body products: Suitable when used within IFRA limits and proper dilution guidelines.
- Perfumery: Useful in spicy accords, aromatic fougeres, herbal colognes, amber blends, woody spice structures, natural chypre-style compositions, and rustic botanical effects.
Creative directions
Use Caraway Seed Essential Oil when a formula needs warmth, dryness, and a distinctive spicy-herbal signature. It works especially well in blends that feel too sweet, flat, fruity, soft, or generic, helping the composition become more aromatic, structured, and characterful.
For warm spice blends, combine caraway seed with orange, mandarine, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, ginger, or soft balsamic materials to create a dry and natural spice profile. For herbal and aromatic directions, use it with rosemary, lavender, basil, thyme, sage, or petitgrain to build a more botanical and culinary-style freshness. For woody and resinous compositions, pair it with cedarwood, patchouli, vetiver, frankincense, labdanum-style accords, or amyris to add depth and earthy warmth.
Caraway seed is also useful in autumn compositions, rustic home fragrance, masculine aromatic blends, herbal soap accords, spice-market profiles, and dry amber structures. Because it is distinctive, savoury, and strongly seed-like, it can become too culinary or medicinal if overdosed. It performs best when used as an accent and balanced with citrus oils, woods, resins, soft herbs, or gentle sweet materials.
Storage & Natural Variations
Caraway Seed Essential Oil is classified as harmful in contact with skin, irritating to the skin, sensitising, hazardous if swallowed and enters the airways, and very toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects. Always follow the IFRA guidance and SDS for the intended product category. The final safety assessment, dilution level, labeling, and regulatory compliance remain the responsibility of the manufacturer.
Essential oils are natural aromatic materials, and slight variations in scent, colour, density, and appearance may occur from batch to batch. These differences are normal and can be influenced by harvest conditions, climate, origin, plant material, and natural compositional variation.
Scent perception may also vary depending on individual sensitivity, dilution level, formulation base, and application method. Essential oils may not smell exactly the same in the bottle as they do in a finished product. We strongly recommend testing a 10g bottle before committing to larger quantities, especially for commercial production.
To preserve quality, store tightly sealed in the original container, away from heat, light, air, and moisture. Store in a cool, dry, well-ventilated place and avoid release into drains, surface water, or the environment.
Order processing times
Standard lead time is 1-2 business days. Processing times may be longer during peak holiday seasons—please plan accordingly.
Bulk Orders
For larger quantities, we offer bulk production starting from 5kg per fragrance code, with a 10% discount per kilogram. Customers who need more than 5kgs per scent, can contact us to arrange a proforma invoice. Bulk orders are produced in multipliers of 5 (5kg, 10kg, 15kg, etc.) and lead times vary depending on fragrance and time of the year, usually within the range of 3 to 8 weeks.
Product Suitability Guide
Comparison of typical formulation levels with the maximum permitted use for each application based on IFRA 51st amdt.
| Application | Typical Use | Suitability |
|---|---|---|
Candles & Wax Melts
|
7–12% | Suitable |
Electric Diffusers
|
Up to 100%* | Suitable* |
Pillow Mists
|
1–5% | Below Range |
Room Sprays
|
2–5% | Below Range |
Reed Diffusers
|
15–25% | Below Range |
Soaps & Rinse-off
|
1–3% | Below Range |
Hair Fragrance
|
1–3% | Below Range |
Lotions & Body Oils
|
0.5–2% | Below Range |
Fine Fragrance
|
10–15% | Below Range |
Facial Makeup
|
0.1–1% | Below Range |
Body Mist & Deodorant
|
1–5% | Below Range |
How to Read the Suitability Statements
✓ Suitable: the permitted concentration reaches or exceeds the average typical-use range. △ Limited: the permitted concentration falls within the typical-use range but remains below its midpoint. × Below Range: the permitted concentration falls below the typical-use range. × Not Permitted: the applicable limit is 0%.
Please Note
Typical-use ranges are general formulation benchmarks, not product-specific recommendations. Suitability is determined by comparing the stated typical-use range with the maximum permitted concentration shown in the current supplier IFRA document.
This guide does not confirm scent performance, base compatibility, stability, device compatibility or complete finished-product compliance. Appropriate testing and all applicable safety, labelling and regulatory requirements remain the responsibility of the finished-product manufacturer.
*Electric diffusers: Up to 100% fragrance may be used only in equipment designed for undiluted fragrance oil. Dilution, carrier and compatibility requirements vary by device. Always follow the equipment manufacturer’s instructions.
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