Chinese cassia essential oil
Cinnamomum cassia
Quế đơn · Lauraceae
Sweet, hot, strong, straight. This is the cinnamon smell most of the world knows, stronger and with fewer layers than Ceylon cinnamon.
Chinese cassia bark is very rich in cinnamaldehyde, and almost its whole smell is the smell of that compound. The heat is not purely smell; it comes from the trigeminal nerve, the same system that tells you chilli is hot.
Chinese cassia and Tra My cassia are two different species in the same cassia group, and their dried bark can barely be told apart by eye. At the market both are simply called quế. The botanical name and the analysis are the only way to know which species a bottle comes from.
- Plant part
- Bark
- Vietnamese name
- Quế đơn
- Scent family
- Spicy
- Plant family
- Lauraceae
- Lots published
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Published lots
No lots yet. When the first lot arrives, its GC/MS analysis will be published here — unedited, with the lot number printed on the bottle label.
Buy Chinese cassia
This oil is in the catalogue but no lot has been brought in, so it is not on sale yet. Message us if you need it — what we stock next depends on what buyers ask for.
Elsewhere in the catalogue
No lot of this oil yet. The oils below are close to it botanically or in how they are extracted — some of them already have lots.
Same plant family: Lauraceae Bay laurel · Camphor ct camphor · Cassia bark · Ho wood · Ravintsara ct 1,8-cineole · Rosewood
Also from the bark Cassia bark · Ceylon cinnamon
Same method: direct steam distillation Balsam fir · Coriander seed · Galangal · Ravintsara ct 1,8-cineole · Rosalina · Rosewood · Spearmint · Wintergreen