Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Myrtle oil

Fresh camphor-green with a sweet, spicy, slightly floral herbal note.

What it is

Natural oil from steam-distilled leaves and twigs.

Where it comes from

Corsica, Morocco, Tunisia

When you smell it

Top notes: the first minutes.

What perfumers do with it

Adds Mediterranean, maquis-like herbal freshness to colognes and aromatic accords.

Worth knowing

Renaissance 'angel's water' (eau d'ange), a famed skin tonic, was distilled from myrtle.

Also called

Myrtus communis; red / green myrtle