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oregano

Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · heart note

Oregano oil

Hot, pungent-phenolic herb; spicy, dry, medicinal.

What it is
Natural oil from steam-distilled flowering herb.
Where it comes from
Turkey, Greece, Spain
When you smell it
Heart: the first hours.
What perfumers do with it
Tiny touches give a hot herbal-spicy note to aromatic accords; far more used in flavors.
Also called
Origanum vulgare / Thymbra capitata; carvacrol type