Clove Bud Essential Oil
Clove Bud Essential Oil is a rich, warm, and spicy scent with a hint of sweetness. Known for its comforting and antiseptic properties, it’s perfect for creating a cozy, inviting ambiance in candles, soaps, and diffusers. This oil also works wonders in oral care and skincare products, offering a soothing and aromatic experience. Blends beautifully with orange, cinnamon, and vanilla for a festive, warming scent that evokes holiday cheer.
Ambiance: Warm / Spicy / Comforting / Festive
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 Clove Bud 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 to base note
- Scent family: Spicy / Warm / Sweet / Phenolic
Clove Bud Essential Oil has a powerful warm-spicy profile with sweet, woody, slightly medicinal, and phenolic undertones. It feels deeper and more rounded than clove leaf, warmer and more aromatic than cinnamon, and more intense than many soft spice oils. Its character is rich, comforting, and instantly recognisable, making it especially useful in festive, oriental, gourmand, amber, incense, and warm aromatic compositions.
The opening is strong, spicy, and sweetly aromatic, while the drydown becomes warmer, darker, and more woody-phenolic. Compared to softer spices, clove bud brings more impact and depth, making it useful when a formula needs warmth, intensity, and a clear spicy signature.
Technical Data & IFRA limits
- Product type: 100% pure essential oil
- Botanical name: Eugenia Caryophyllus
- CAS number: 84961-50-2
- EC number: 284-638-7
- Plant part: Flower buds
- Extraction method: Steam Distillation
- Origin: Indonesia
- Flashpoint: 109°C
- Density: 1.02–1.06 g/cm³ at 20°C
- Main natural constituents: Rich in eugenol, with naturally occurring isoeugenol, benzyl salicylate, geraniol, linalool, limonene, and related warm-spicy aromatic constituents. Exact composition may vary by batch.
IFRA Maximum Usage Levels
- Candles: 13.20%
- Diffusers: 0.12%
- Perfumes: 2.20%
- Soaps: 0.03%
For full category-specific limits, refer to the Clove Bud Essential Oil IFRA certificate available in the “Related Documents” tab.
Formulation & Creative Uses
Clove Bud Essential Oil works as a strong warm-spicy modifier. It adds heat, depth, sweetness, and aromatic intensity to a formula, helping soft, sweet, woody, resinous, citrus, and gourmand compositions feel richer and more dimensional. It is especially useful when a blend needs a clear festive warmth, an oriental-spicy accent, or a darker aromatic backbone.
Common applications
- Diffusers: Useful in very low levels for warm, spicy, festive, amber, incense, and winter-inspired blends, always within IFRA limits.
- Candles & wax melts: Adds strong spicy warmth and excellent seasonal character, especially in Christmas, bakery, orange-spice, chai, amber, and cozy home fragrance compositions.
- Soaps: Can bring a powerful spicy accent, but must be used carefully within IFRA limits and tested for process stability.
- Bath & body products: Suitable only at carefully controlled levels and within IFRA limits due to its high impact and sensitising potential.
- Perfumery: Useful in oriental accords, spicy ambers, gourmand spices, incense blends, leather accents, tobacco accords, festive perfumes, and dark woody structures.
Creative directions
Use Clove Bud Essential Oil when a formula needs warmth, spice, depth, and a strong festive or oriental character. It works especially well in blends that feel too flat, cold, sweet, fruity, or simple, helping the composition gain richness, intensity, and a more memorable aromatic signature.
For festive and winter blends, combine clove bud with orange, cinnamon, vanilla, benzoin, nutmeg, ginger, or tonka-style materials to create a warm holiday effect. For darker oriental directions, use it with patchouli, cedarwood, frankincense, labdanum-style accords, amber materials, resins, and balsams. For gourmand or bakery-style compositions, it can support apple, pumpkin, caramel, chai, biscuit, cocoa, and spiced vanilla themes.
Clove bud is also useful in incense, tobacco, leather, spicy amber, and rich woody compositions. Because it is extremely powerful and eugenol-rich, it can dominate a formula quickly and may become harsh, medicinal, or irritating if overdosed. It performs best as a controlled accent, balanced with citrus, sweet balsams, woods, vanilla, resins, or softer spices that round out its intense warm-spicy character.
Storage & Natural Variations
Clove Bud Essential Oil is classified as harmful if swallowed or in contact with skin, irritating to the skin, irritating to the eyes, sensitising, and hazardous if swallowed and enters the airways. 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, 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.
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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