Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Marjoram oil

Say itMAR-jur-um oil

Warm, sweet-spicy herb; woody, slightly camphoraceous and nutmeg-like.

What it is

Natural oil from steam-distilled flowering herb.

Where it comes from

Egypt, France, Spain

When you smell it

Top notes: the first minutes.

What perfumers do with it

Adds a warm, soft herbal-spicy note to aromatic and spicy accords.

Worth knowing

'Spanish marjoram' oil is actually distilled from a thyme, Thymus mastichina, and smells of eucalyptus.

Also called

Sweet marjoram; Origanum majorana