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Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Basil oil

Say itBAY-zul oil

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