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Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Pine needle oil

Fresh, resinous green forest; balsamic, turpentine-clean and slightly sweet.

What it is
Natural oil from steam-distilled needles and twigs.
Where it comes from
Central and Eastern Europe
When you smell it
Top notes: the first minutes.
What perfumers do with it
Instant forest freshness for aromatic, fougère and functional fragrances.
Rules
Limited. Pine-family oil: must be kept unoxidized (peroxide specification)
Also called
Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris; also dwarf pine, P. mugo