Clary Sage Essential Oil
Clary Sage Essential Oil has a soft, herbal, and slightly floral aroma with a sweet green freshness and a gentle tea-like character. Known for its calming and balancing profile, it’s ideal for candles, diffusers, soaps, bath products, perfumes, and personal care formulations where a smooth herbal-floral note is desired. This oil brings softness, clarity, and natural aromatic elegance to blends, especially when paired with lavender, bergamot, rosemary, cedarwood, frankincense, ylang ylang, patchouli, or soft musks.
Clary Sage Essential Oil offers strong versatility across candles, diffusers, soaps, perfumes, and personal care formulations, with generous IFRA allowance in key applications such as diffusers and soaps, and no headline restriction for candles. Its soft herbal-floral profile makes it especially useful in calming, spa, wellness, skincare-inspired, and mood-balancing blends without becoming sharp or medicinal. A classic natural aromatic material, Clary Sage helps smooth citrus, floral, woody, amber, and musky compositions while adding a refined botanical softness.
Ambiance: Herbal / Soft / Floral / Calming
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 Clary Sage 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: Herbal / Floral / Green / Musky
Clary Sage Essential Oil has a soft, herbal, and slightly floral profile with green, tea-like, musky, sweet, and lightly earthy nuances. It feels smoother and more floral than rosemary, less medicinal than tea tree, and more aromatic than lavender. Its character is calming, rounded, and naturally elegant, making it especially useful in spa, wellness, herbal, floral, musky, fougere, and soft aromatic compositions.
The opening is fresh, green, and herbaceous, while the drydown becomes softer, warmer, more floral, and gently musky. Compared to sharper herbal oils, Clary Sage brings more comfort and smoothness, making it valuable when a formula needs herbal freshness without losing softness or emotional warmth.
Technical Data & IFRA limits
- Product type: 100% pure essential oil
- Botanical name: Salvia Sclarea
- CAS number: 8016-63-
- Other identifiers: Clary Sage Oil EOB-07
- Plant part: Tops and leaves
- Extraction method: Steam Distillation
- Origin: France
- Flashpoint: 81°C
- Appearance: Light yellow to brown liquid
- Odour: Characteristic, sweet, herbaceous
- Density: 0.8900–0.9080 g/cm³
- Main natural constituents: Naturally rich in linalyl acetate and linalool, with alpha-terpineol, geranyl acetate, geraniol, d-limonene, hexen-2-al, benzyl benzoate, citral, carvone, alpha-hexylcinnamaldehyde, and related soft herbal-floral aromatic constituents. Exact composition may vary by batch.
IFRA Maximum Usage Levels
- Candles: 100%
- Diffusers: 20.00%
- Perfumes: 10.00%
- Soaps: 20.00%
For full category-specific limits, refer to the Clary Sage Essential Oil IFRA certificate available in the “Related Documents” tab.
Formulation & Creative Uses
Clary Sage Essential Oil works as a soft herbal-floral middle note. It adds smoothness, green aromatic lift, floral warmth, and a gentle musky-herbal texture to a formula, helping citrus, floral, woody, amber, resinous, musky, or lavender-based compositions feel more balanced and rounded. It is especially useful when a blend needs a calming herbal identity without becoming too sharp, medicinal, or culinary.
Common applications
- Diffusers: Excellent for calming, spa-like, herbal, floral, wellness-inspired, relaxing, and mood-balancing blends.
- Candles & wax melts: Adds soft herbal warmth, especially in spa, lavender-herbal, floral musk, clean botanical, amber herbal, and relaxation-themed compositions.
- Soaps: Brings a smooth herbal-floral 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 fougere structures, herbal florals, musky florals, soft aromatic colognes, lavender accords, amber florals, green compositions, and natural perfumery blends.
Creative directions
Use Clary Sage Essential Oil when a formula needs softness, herbal balance, and a gentle floral-green heart. It works especially well in blends that feel too sharp, citrusy, medicinal, woody, dry, or emotionally cold, helping the composition become calmer, smoother, and more rounded.
For spa and relaxation blends, combine Clary Sage with lavender, bergamot, frankincense, cedarwood, ylang ylang, geranium, or soft musks to create a calm, polished botanical profile. For herbal-aromatic directions, use it with rosemary, basil, thyme, petitgrain, eucalyptus, or peppermint to soften sharper green materials and add a more elegant heart. For deeper and more sensual blends, pair it with patchouli, vetiver, amyris, sandalwood, amber materials, vanilla-like notes, or resinous accords.
Clary Sage is also useful in sleep-inspired blends, wellness-style diffusers, herbal body care profiles, soft masculine fragrances, lavender-based candles, and floral musks. Because it has a distinctive herbal-musky sweetness, it can become heavy or slightly hay-like if overdosed. It performs best when balanced with citrus oils, lavender, florals, woods, musks, or gentle resins that lift and frame its soft aromatic character.
Storage & Natural Variations
Elemi Essential Oil is classified as flammable, hazardous if swallowed and enters the airways, irritating to the skin, sensitising, 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, viscosity, and appearance may occur from batch to batch. These differences are normal and can be influenced by resin quality, origin, harvest conditions, distillation conditions, aging, 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. Elemi Essential Oil contains a high level of terpenic materials and should be protected from oxidation to preserve its fresh resinous character. Store in a cool, dry, well-ventilated place, keep away from ignition sources, 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.
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