Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note
Peppermint oil
Cool, sharp fresh mint with a sweet, slightly creamy-green depth.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled leaves.
- Where it comes from
- USA (Oregon, Washington, Idaho), India
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds cooling freshness in small touches to fougères and aromatics; mostly for oral care and flavors.
- Worth knowing
- Peppermint is a sterile hybrid of watermint and spearmint, spread by runners rather than seed.
- Also called
- Mentha × piperita
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