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Blue chamomile oil

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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