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Ingredients · Earth & moss · heart note
Carrot seed oil
Earthy, dry woody-rooty with orris-like powderiness and a faint fruity sweetness.
- What it is
- Natural oil from seeds of wild carrot, Daucus carota.
- Where it comes from
- France, Hungary, India
- When you smell it
- Heart: the first hours.
- What perfumers do with it
- Budget orris support and earthy modifier in chypres, fougères and violet or mimosa accords.
- Worth knowing
- Its main component, carotol, gives an earthy iris effect that perfumers use to stretch costly orris butter.
- Also called
- Daucus carota
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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