Ingredients · Spices · heart note
Pimento berry oil
Clove, cinnamon and nutmeg at once, warm and slightly peppery.
- What it is
- Natural oil from dried unripe berries of Pimenta dioica.
- Where it comes from
- Jamaica, Central America
- When you smell it
- Heart: the first hours.
- What perfumers do with it
- Gives rounded all-in-one spice warmth to orientals, fougères and spiced gourmands.
- Worth knowing
- English traders named it allspice because it seemed to combine cinnamon, nutmeg and clove.
- Rules
- Limited. Limited through eugenol and methyl eugenol content (IFRA).
- Also called
- Allspice oil; Pimenta dioica
Named by the house, not on the label, in 6
