What Cedarome does

Cedarome Canada Inc. is a privately held producer and global supplier of pure and natural essential oils, headquartered in Candiac, Quebec. Founded in 1984 by Pierre Trahan, the company operates a 122,400 sq ft (11,371 m2) centralized facility housing manufacturing, warehousing, quality control, and R&D laboratories. Its four core product lines are citrus essential oils (cold pressed and specialty forms), Canadian forest naturals (coniferous oils, concretes, absolutes, and resins from boreal sources), other essential oils sourced globally, and specialized natural isolates developed in collaboration with customers.

Production is anchored in cold pressing (citrus), steam distillation, and specialized isolation, deterpenation, and fractionation processes, supported by advanced laboratory equipment including gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry. Cedarome holds a comprehensive certification stack (C-TPAT, SQF, COR, Halal, Kosher, REACH, CFIA) and maintains IFRA compliance and IFEAT membership. The company maintains decades-long relationships with international producer-partners and is recognized as the largest global supplier of Canadian natural products.

Cedarome operates a sales-led B2B distribution model, selling directly to enterprise customers in flavor, pharmaceutical, aromatherapy, cosmetics, fine fragrance, personal care, household fragrance, and industrial cleaner industries at minimum order quantities of 5-180 kg or full container loads. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. The company is founder-owned and led by Pierre Trahan as president, with a senior team of VPs and Directors across sales/strategic sourcing, finance, operations, and R&D, and a workforce of 101-250 employees.

Name

Cedarome

Legal name

Cedarome Canada Inc.

Website

https://cedarome.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Cedarome Canada is a privately held, founder-owned producer and global B2B supplier of pure and natural essential oils, including citrus oils, Canadian forest naturals, and natural isolates, serving flavor, pharmaceutical, aromatherapy, cosmetic, fine fragrance, personal care, household fragrance, and industrial cleaner industries from its centralized Candiac, Quebec facility.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Essential Oils and Natural Ingredients

SIC

Medicinal Chemicals & Botanical Products (2833), Miscellaneous Chemical Products (2890)

akta.pro primary industry

Natural Extracts & Essential Oils (Botanical/Citrus/Herb/Spice Extracts) (AFAJADAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Essential Oils & Forest Aromatics Distillation (NTFP-Based) (AFAMAFAG), Resins & Oleoresins (Pine Resin, Frankincense, Myrrh) Harvesting (AFAMAFAA), Extracts, Oleoresins & Essential Oils (Spice Extracts for Flavoring) (AFAJANAJ)

Keywords

• Essential oils production
• Citrus oil processing
• Natural isolates supply
• Coniferous forest oils
• Flavor fragrance ingredients

Headquarters

HQ city

Candiac

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Essential Oils Sales: B2B transaction-based sales of pure and natural essential oils including citrus oils, natural isolates, and Canadian forest naturals. Products sold in quantities ranging from 5 to 180 kg or in full container loads.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cedarome produces and supplies pure and natural essential oils across four core lines: cold-pressed citrus oils, Canadian forest naturals (coniferous oils, concretes, absolutes, and resins from boreal sources), other pure essential oils sourced worldwide, and specialized natural isolates (such as Citral, D-Limonene, Linalool, Valencene) developed in collaboration with customers. Products are manufactured at a 122,400 sq ft facility in Candiac, Quebec, using cold pressing, steam distillation, and isolation/deterpenation/fractionation processes, and sold in minimum order quantities of 5–180 kg or full container loads to industrial buyers.

Product overview

Cedarome is a global producer and supplier of pure and natural essential oils with four core product lines: Citrus Essential Oils (cold pressed and specialty varieties), Canadian Naturals (coniferous oils, concretes, absolutes, and resins from Canadian biodiversity), Other Essential Oils (worldwide sourced pure oils), and Natural Isolates (specialized isolates for formulation). The company operates production facilities in Canada (Candiac, Quebec) with distillation units for isolation, deterpenation, and fractionation, serving flavour, pharmaceutical, aromatherapy, cosmetic, fine fragrance, personal care, household fragrance, and industrial cleaner industries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Citrus Essential Oils Cold pressed citrus oils and specialties including concentrated, deterpenated, decolorized oils, and natural isolates. Includes orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit, tangerine, mandarin, bitter orange, and bergamot varieties in multiple forms (distilled, 5X, 10X, carbonyls, terpenes, deterpenated, washed, aqueous phase). Sold to industrial buyers in flavor, fragrance, and personal care industries.
• Canadian Naturals (Forest Naturals) Products sourced from Canadian biodiversity including coniferous oils (balsam fir, white spruce, black spruce, eastern hemlock, white pine, red pine, western red cedar), concretes, absolutes, resins, and botanical ingredients from boreal forest, tundra, and prairie regions such as Labrador tea and goldenrod. Cedarome is recognized as the largest producer and supplier of Canadian natural products globally.
• Other Essential Oils (Worldwide Sourced) Pure and natural essential oils sourced directly from origin worldwide, including absinthe, rose absolute, tea tree, pimento berry, basil (methylchavicol type), ho wood, sandalwood, Roman and wild chamomile, cardamom, Atlas cedar, Java citronella, Indonesia clove, cinnamon bark and leaf, eucalyptus 80/85, immortelle, lavender, peppermint, spearmint, nutmeg, myrtle, oregano, black pepper, rosemary, rose, turpentine, white and red thyme, and blue tansy.
• Natural Isolates Specialized natural isolates developed with customers for specific formulation needs, including Citral 95% min F.C.C., Decanal (C10 aldehyde orange), D-Limonene, Linalool ex orange, Octanal (C8 aldehyde orange), Thujone 90% min., and Valencene. Used as building blocks for flavor and fragrance compositions.

Quantifiable outcome

• Recognized as the fastest in the industry for order processing
• +1 more outcomes

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Partner-Producers (International)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCedarome has developed strong, solid relationships and alliances spanning over three decades with international producer-partners. The company works hand-in-hand with partners to optimize extraction processes to increase yields, achieve sustainable production objectives, or find uses for by-products. Partnerships emphasize eco-responsible approaches and sustainability principles (environmental, social, and economic). Cedarome is proud to help support responsible sourcing and sustainability efforts among its partner-producers worldwide.
• IFEATminorOthersMember of IFEAT (International Federation of Essential Oils and Aroma Trades) - an industry association providing networking and knowledge sharing within the essential oils and aroma trades sector.
• IFRAminorOthersCedarome follows the recommendations of IFRA (International Fragrance Association) for compliance with industry standards and best practices in the fragrance industry.
• PIP (Partenaires en protection)minorOthersMember of PIP (Partenaires en protection - Partners In Protection), a cooperation program between the private sector and the Canada Border Services Agency for security and customs compliance.
• SFA (Programme de Sûreté du fret aérien)minorOthersMember of SFA (Programme de Sûreté du fret aérien de Transport Canada) - Air Cargo Security Program of Transport Canada for secure freight handling.
• PEP (Partenaires en protection)minorOthersPEP (Partenaires en protection - Partners In Protection) is a cooperation program between the private sector and the Canada Border Services Agency. Cedarome holds active membership certification.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Givaudan: World's largest flavor and fragrance company with comprehensive natural and synthetic ingredient offerings including essential oils. Overlaps with Cedarome's flavor, fragrance, and personal-care customer segments, though operates at vastly greater scale and breadth.
• International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF): Global mega-incumbent in flavors and fragrances with vast product portfolios including essential oils, natural extracts, and isolates. Broader and far larger than Cedarome, but overlaps significantly in customer base and ingredient categories; Pierre Trahan notably began his career at predecessor Bush Boake Allen, now part of IFF.
• Symrise: Global flavor and fragrance incumbent with significant essential oils and natural ingredients operations serving food, beverage, personal care, and cosmetics. Broad incumbent peer overlapping with Cedarome in citrus oils, coniferous oils, and natural isolates for similar end markets.

Direct peers

• Treatt: UK-listed B2B producer of natural and synthetic flavor and fragrance ingredients with particular strength in citrus and tropical essential oils. Comparable to Cedarome in customer base (flavor and beverage houses) and citrus focus, though broader in synthetic ingredients.
• Robertet: French family-owned producer of natural raw materials for the flavor and fragrance industry with deep expertise in essential oils, citrus specialties, and natural isolates. Closest direct comparable to Cedarome given shared focus on specialty natural ingredients, B2B sales to flavor/fragrance houses, and producer-partner sourcing model.
• Lionel Hitchen Essential Oils: UK-based producer of essential oils, citrus oils, and natural isolates for the flavor, fragrance, and personal care industries. Closely comparable to Cedarome on citrus specialization, B2B sales model, and natural isolates development capability.
• Biolandes: French producer of natural aromatic raw materials including essential oils, absolutes, concretes, and resinoids sourced from a global partner-producer network. Direct comparable given shared focus on concretes/absolutes/resinoids and similar B2B distribution to flavor and fragrance formulators.
• Albert Vieille: French specialist in essential oils and aromatic raw materials with a strong focus on citrus, coniferous, and natural isolates for perfumery and aromatherapy. Highly comparable to Cedarome's product mix and customer base, particularly the citrus and forest naturals lines.
• Berje: US-based essential oils and aromatic chemicals distributor and producer serving the flavor, fragrance, and pharmaceutical industries. Comparable to Cedarome in product breadth and B2B distribution model, with similar multi-decade operating history.
• Citrus & Allied Essences: US-based specialist in citrus essential oils, deterpenated citrus fractions, and natural citrus isolates. Direct competitor to Cedarome's citrus oils line with overlapping product categories (orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit) and similar B2B customer profile.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance12 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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