Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Hyssop oil

Say itHIS-up oil

Sweet, camphoraceous herb, slightly minty-fruity and warm-spicy.

What it is

Natural oil from steam-distilled flowering herb.

Where it comes from

France and the Balkans

When you smell it

Top notes: the first minutes.

What perfumers do with it

Adds an unusual sweet-camphor herbal accent to aromatic fougères and colognes.

Worth knowing

Hyssop and lemon balm were steeped into traditional absinthe to give the spirit its green color.

Also called

Hyssopus officinalis