Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · dry-down
Calamus oil
Say itKAL-uh-mus oil
Warm and sweet like wet cake dough, with a woody, leathery-suede side.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled rhizome of sweet flag, Acorus calamus, a wetland plant of Asia, Europe and North America.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: what stays.
- What perfumers do with it
- A warm, woody-leathery accent; its asarone keeps the dose very low.
- Worth knowing
- The United States banned calamus and its oil from food in 1968.
- Rules
- Limited. The oil can be up to 75% beta-asarone; IFRA's standard on cis- and trans-asarone (2006) is listed as a prohibition and a restriction
- Also called
- Sweet flag oil; Acorus calamus rhizome oil
Named by the house, not on the label, in 2
