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Ingredients · Spices · heart note
Mace oil
Nutmeg-like but sweeter and softer, with a fresh citrus lift.
- What it is
- Natural oil from dried red aril around the nutmeg seed.
- Where it comes from
- Indonesia, Grenada
- When you smell it
- Heart: the first hours.
- What perfumers do with it
- A rounder, more refined nutmeg effect for spicy florals and orientals.
- Worth knowing
- Mace and nutmeg come from the same fruit: mace is the lacy red coat around the seed.
- Rules
- Limited. Limited through safrole and methyl eugenol content (IFRA).
- Also called
- Myristica fragrans aril oil
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