

Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note
Basil oil
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Fresh, sweet green herb with anise, licorice-spice and floral linalool notes.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled flowering herb.
- Where it comes from
- Egypt, France, India
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Brings green, spicy-anise herbal freshness to citrus colognes and modern aromatic masculines.
- Worth knowing
- Its name comes from the Greek 'basilikon', meaning royal.
- Rules
- Limited. Contains estragole and methyl eugenol, both IFRA-limited
- Also called
- Sweet basil; Ocimum basilicum (linalool type); basilic
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