
Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note
Rosemary oil
Fresh camphor-cineole herb; clean, piney, slightly woody-medicinal.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled flowering tops.
- Where it comes from
- Morocco, Tunisia, Spain
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Classic cologne herb: adds sharp, invigorating aromatic freshness to citrus and lavender accords.
- Worth knowing
- Legendary 'Hungary Water', often called the first alcohol-based perfume, was made primarily with rosemary.
- Also called
- Rosmarinus officinalis (Salvia rosmarinus); cineole and camphor types
Named by the house, not on the label, in 5
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