Worth a closer look
Labeled fragrance allergen (EU) Partly banned by the fragrance industry Scent ingredient Restricted in the EU
- What it can be used for
- Adds scent (the functions the EU ingredient database, CosIng, lists for it; a product may use it for any of them)
- CAS number
- 8007-00-9
Why it’s flagged
A fragrance allergen the EU requires companies to name on the label.
- Annex III entry 154; on labels from 2026 to 2028 (Regulation 2023/1545). Source: EU Cosmetics Regulation, Annex III (restricted)
Must be named on EU labels above 0.001% in leave-on and 0.01% in rinse-off products. Elsewhere, including the US, it can hide inside “fragrance”.
Prohibited in some forms, limited in others, by the fragrance industry's own IFRA standard.
- IFRA standard “Peru balsam”: prohibited in some forms, restricted in others. Source: IFRA Standards Library
IFRA, the fragrance industry's own standards body, prohibits this material in some forms and sets limits on others. The linked standard says which.
Used to add scent: its official function is perfuming or fragrance.
- Listed functions: perfuming. Source: EU CosIng ingredient database
The EU ingredient database (CosIng) lists this ingredient's function as perfuming or fragrance, so it may be there to add scent, even on a label that never says “fragrance.”
Allowed in EU cosmetics only with limits.
- Annex II entry 1136 bans only this form: “Peru balsam (INCI name: Myroxylon pereirae), when used as a fragrance ingredient”. Source: EU Cosmetics Regulation, Annex II (prohibited)
Annex III (restricted substances) or Annex V (preservatives) of the EU Cosmetics Regulation sets maximum amounts, allowed product types or required warnings.
Don’t want it on you or in your air? Look for “fragrance-free,” not “unscented.” An unscented product can still contain a masking fragrance. Why the words matter.
What this page can’t tell you
These lists describe what a substance can do, its hazard. The risk from one product depends on how much is in it and how you use it, and the label doesn’t say how much.
Not being on a list doesn’t make an ingredient safe. It may never have been assessed.
“Fragrance” or “parfum” on a label can hide this ingredient and many others. In the US, the individual chemicals in a fragrance are rarely named on the label.
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