

Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note
Juniper berry oil
Fresh gin-like piney berry; resinous, peppery-green, slightly fruity.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled crushed ripe berries.
- Where it comes from
- the Balkans, Italy, India
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds crisp, gin-like conifer freshness to colognes, aromatic masculines and cocktail accords.
- Worth knowing
- Gin's name traces to 'genever', from the Dutch word for juniper.
- Also called
- Juniperus communis fruit oil
