Chocolate Patchouli CO2 Extract
Price range: $32.00 through $112.00 USD
INCI: Pogostemon Cablin Leaf Extract
Method: CO2 Extraction
Grade: Prime Select
Solubility: Oil-Soluble
Use: 0.20 – 2.0%
Chocolate Patchouli CO2 is a richly aromatic botanical extract that brings an unexpected gourmand twist to classic patchouli. Deep, earthy, and complex, this CO2 extract opens with distinctive notes reminiscent of chocolate, cool mint, soft woods, and powdery florals before settling into the more familiar depth of patchouli with its earthy, woody, camphoraceous, and rain-soaked soil nuances. This makes it a uniquely expressive ingredient for formulators seeking to create sophisticated, sensory-driven products with warmth, mystery, and character.
Unlike a standard patchouli essential oil, Chocolate Patchouli CO2 offers a fuller, more nuanced aroma profile that can add intrigue to perfumes, perfume oils, anointing blends, body oils, balms, soaps, and other aromatic personal care formulations. Its rich olfactory profile lends itself beautifully to gourmand, earthy, resinous, floral, and atmospheric scent compositions.
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Why Formulators Love It
Chocolate Patchouli CO2 offers the familiar grounding depth of patchouli, elevated by unusual chocolate-like and softly powdered tonalities that make it stand apart in fine fragrance and body care applications. It is especially appealing for formulators looking to create blends with a moody, luxurious, or sensual character.
Product Benefits
Chocolate Patchouli CO2 offers both aromatic appeal and botanical formulation value. In perfumery, it functions as a rich base note that adds depth, warmth, and longevity while helping anchor more delicate notes. In aromatherapy-style applications, patchouli is traditionally valued for its grounding, calming, and centering aroma.
In topical formulations, patchouli-derived extracts are often appreciated for their balancing character in products intended for oily, blemish-prone, or imbalanced skin. They are also valued for the soothing and antioxidant-associated support they may bring to botanical skincare and body care formulations.
Formulation Notes
Usage Rate: 0.2 -2.0%
Solubility: Oil-soluble
Chocolate Patchouli CO2 is a concentrated aromatic extract, so low use levels are often sufficient to make a strong impact in finished formulations. It is especially useful for adding richness, depth, and longevity to fragrance compositions. Formulators may find it particularly effective in gourmand accords, earthy blends, resinous perfumes, and products intended to evoke warmth, ritual, and sensory indulgence.
This extract pairs beautifully with vanilla, cocoa, benzoin, tonka bean, sandalwood, labdanum, vetiver, cedarwood, rose, and floral absolutes. It can also add dimension to herbal and incense-style profiles.
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Applications
Chocolate Patchouli CO2 is well suited for a wide range of aromatic and personal care products including perfumes, perfume oils, body oils, balms, salves, solid perfumes, soaps, anointing blends, and incense-inspired formulations. It can also be incorporated into select skincare and body care products where a deep botanical aroma and balancing plant profile are desired.
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• Perfumes
• Perfume oils
• Body oils
• Balms and salves
• Solid fragrance
• Soap
• Aromatic body care
• Ritual and incense-inspired blends
Aromatic Profile
This extract offers a layered and evolving aroma. The opening may suggest chocolate, mint, wafer-like sweetness, wood shavings, tobacco, musk, and powdery floral tones. As it develops, it becomes more recognizably patchouli with earthy, woody, damp soil, petrichor-like, and camphoraceous nuances. The result is a sophisticated profile that feels gourmand, atmospheric, and deeply grounded.
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