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Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · heart note
Blue chamomile oil
Say itBlue KAM-uh-myle oil
Dark herbaceous tobacco, sweet hay and fruit with a bitter, inky note.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled flower heads.
- Where it comes from
- Egypt and Eastern Europe
- When you smell it
- Heart: the first hours.
- What perfumers do with it
- Tiny amounts add depth and natural warmth to tobacco, tea, chypre and ambery accords.
- Worth knowing
- The inky blue isn't in the flower: chamazulene forms from matricin during steam distillation.
- Also called
- German chamomile; Matricaria chamomilla (recutita)
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