CINNAMON Fragrance Oil

From the Servus workshop: what it is

CINNAMON #EU37881F is a liquid fragrance oil from the spiced family, made by French Color & Fragrance International GmbH (Germany), in a 50 ml bottle. Read from its composition, it is a gingerbread cinnamon, not a clean bark cinnamon: eugenol, the clove note, is at 5.15–10.8%, above cinnamic aldehyde (2.35–4.85%), and ethyl maltol adds a burnt sugar, caramel note. Cardamom oil and cinnamic alcohol round out the middle, and eucalyptol gives it a fresh top.

Sînziana says: “Cinnamon is gingerbread cinnamon. We poured it in the workshop in June and at pouring the smell was strong — I wrote in the notebook ‘cinnamon or gingerbread’. With the temperature you don’t have the worry you have with other scents: the flash point is above 93 degrees. The worry is your hands: it’s a strong allergen, so I wear gloves when weighing.”

Behaviour in production

We poured it in the workshop. In the test on 16 June 2026, on a production batch, with wax already coloured, the smell at pouring was strong, of cinnamon or gingerbread — that’s what the notebook says. That is all we note: it is the smell in the workshop during pouring, not a promise about how strongly the finished candle comes through, cold or while burning.

“Gingerbread” has an explanation in the composition. There is more eugenol — the smell of cloves — than cinnamic aldehyde, and the allergen report gives it at 10.39%. Add ethyl maltol for caramel and the cardamom, and you have a gingerbread cinnamon, not a dry, bark one. If you’re looking for pure cinnamon, cinnamon-stick style, compare on a small piece first.

Temperature isn’t its problem. The flash point on the data sheet is above 93 °C, above the temperature at which most waxes are scented. You add it at the fragrance-adding temperature on your wax’s data sheet, stirring slowly.

Your hands are. Eugenol and cinnamic aldehyde are skin sensitisers, and the data sheet classifies the blend H317 and H319. The concentrate isn’t touched with bare hands: you weigh it wearing gloves, and if it gets on your skin or in your eyes, you rinse with plenty of water.

With a new batch, test before the large production run. Note the batch number on the label, the wax, the percentage, the wick and the container, then compare on a small piece, on your final recipe.

Dosage by application: how you build a collection

With the same scent you make a candle, soap, room spray, diffuser or cream — but each product has its own ceiling in the scent’s IFRA certificate (amendment 51):

The label for your reed diffuser with Cinnamon, on a Diffusol M base, comes out of the calculator.

(The figures are rounded down, to two decimal places; the certificate gives them to eight. A safety limit is never rounded up.)

Read it like this: in candles, soap and room spray you have room; in cream you don’t. Soap takes up to 10.10%, body cream only 1.31%, and face cream 0.86% — the same percentage doesn’t carry over from one to another.

Candles: the real ceiling comes from your wax’s data sheet. In our formulas: 6–8% in containers, 5–6% in moulds, 4–6% in figurines, and a first scented candle starts from 5%. Weighed, not counted in drops — the density is ≈ 0.96, so 50 ml ≈ 48 g, enough for about 800 g of wax at 6%. Added at the fragrance-adding temperature on the wax’s data sheet, stirred slowly for a minute or two.

Soap and cosmetics: keep to the ceiling of the exact category in the table. In the workshop we work at 1–3% in soap. For your product’s label, the scent’s allergen report is under Download, on this page — for this scent it has eight entries, with eugenol at the top.

A complete system — what you pour together with the scent: for candles, container wax or wax for moulds, the right wick and liquid dye. For soap and cosmetics: cosmetic bases and soap colourant. For volumes and continuity of stock, Servus Club.

Stated limits

It is NOT for lips, toys, toothpaste or mouthwash — IFRA restricts it to 0% (Cat 1 and Cat 6).

It does NOT go into cream at the soap percentage — in soap you’re allowed 10.10%, in body cream 1.31%, in face cream 0.86%.

It does NOT go above 10.10% in a reed diffuser — that is the IFRA ceiling for category 10A, even if the diffuser base would take more.

It is NOT the scent for deodorants or a baby line — the ceiling is 0.28%, below what makes sense in a recipe.

It is NOT pure bark cinnamon — eugenol and ethyl maltol take it towards gingerbread. If your recipe calls for dry cinnamon, test first.

It is NOT an essential oil and it is NOT natural — it is a perfumery composition, with cardamom oil in the formula.

How to read IFRA limits in practice: IFRA fragrances for candles — how much you’re allowed vs. how it burns. How much you add, when you add it and why sometimes you can’t smell it: fragrance oil for candles.

What needs checking on your recipe: how strongly it comes through cold and while burning in your wax, at your percentage · whether it changes the shade of white wax (the colour of the liquid isn’t given on the data sheet) · the wick on your diameter at the final percentage. Before the large production run, one small piece.

Technical properties

Behaviour per recipe (how strongly it comes through in each wax, the final shade) is set by testing in the workshop — it isn’t on the data sheet.

Step by step

1. Check the IFRA limit for your application (the table above) — for cream, 1.31%, not the soap percentage.
2. Weigh, wearing gloves: 50 ml ≈ 48 g. At low percentages, the scale beats the measuring jug.
3. For candles, add it at the fragrance-adding temperature on your wax’s data sheet; stir slowly for a minute or two.
4. For soap and cosmetics, download the allergen report and write the label from it — here it has eight entries.
5. Test small — one piece on the final recipe, judged after two days: scent cold, while burning, the colour.

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