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Carrot seed oil

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

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