Cade Oil

#### Cade Oil. Strictly speaking, **Cade Oil **is identical to **Juniper Tar **(also called juniper tar oil), obtained by destructive distillation of the wood from **Juniperus**** ****Oxycedrus**, a shrub related to the common juniper. Three other oils are obtained from this shrub: 1) From the fruits ("berries"), 2) from the twigs and leaves (needles), 3) from the wood—all by steam distillation. None of these three oils have obtained any interest from the perfumery or flavor industry (see **Juniper Wood Oil**). The **Cade Oil**, used in perfumery is usually a rectified oil, obtained by rectification (steam distillation or vacuum distillation) of the crude juniper tar oil. The latter consists of the upper layer of the entire mass of tar which is obtained by destructive distillation of the wood. The juniperus oxycedrus is quite common all over the Mediterranean countries, particularly in Spain and North Africa. Production of **Cade Oil **is concentrated in Spain, France, and Yugoslavia. The annual output is quite substantial: 125 to 200 metric tons, most of which is used in veterinary medicine and for the treatment of various human skin diseases. **Rectified**** ****Cade**** ****Oil**** **is a clear, orange-brown to dark brown, oily liquid with an intense "tar-like", smoky-phenolic odor. Its use in perfumery is limited to situations where a smoky-leathery, woody-phenolic, dry and warm note is called for: forest notes, leather-bases, fougères, pine for "men's fragrances", etc., and in the imitation of certain essential oils, oakmoss, etc. Cade oil has certain disinfectant properties for which it can be utilized in soap perfumes, for example combined with thyme, origanum, clove and similar phenolic oils, if the discoloration creates no serious problem, and with cassia oil, melaleuca alternifolia, ocotea pretiosa, etc. **Cade Oil **finds occasionally use in the flavoring of meat and seafood to which it imparts the "smoke"-note previous obtained in a regular smokehouse.