Ingredients · Amber & resins · heart note

Cistus oil

Say itSIS-tus oil

Dry, herbaceous amber with honeyed, woody and slightly green, spicy facets.

What it is

Natural oil from steam-distilled leafy twigs of rockrose (Cistus ladanifer).

Where it comes from

Spain

When you smell it

Heart: the first hours.

What perfumers do with it

Lifts amber and chypre accords with a drier, more herbal rockrose note; bridges resins and woods.

Also called

Rockrose oil; cistus essential oil