Ingredients · Florals · top note

Palmarosa oil

Say itpal-muh-ROH-suh oil

Sweet, rosy geranium with a fresh grassy-lemony lift.

What it is

Natural oil from steam-distilled dried grass.

Where it comes from

India, Nepal

When you smell it

Top notes: the first minutes.

What perfumers do with it

Inexpensive rosy heart; builds rose, geranium and carnation accords; natural geraniol source.

Worth knowing

Once shipped via Constantinople to cut Turkish rose oil, which earned it the misleading name 'Turkish geranium oil'.

Rules

Limited. Mostly geraniol, so capped by IFRA's geraniol limit

Also called

Cymbopogon martinii var. motia; historic 'Turkish' or 'Indian geranium' oil