
Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note
Rosemary verbenone oil
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Softer, sweeter rosemary; green-herbal, less camphor, with a fresh balsamic note.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled herb of a verbenone-rich chemotype.
- Where it comes from
- Corsica (France)
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- A gentler, rounder rosemary for refined herbal accords where camphor would be too harsh.
- Worth knowing
- Same species as ordinary rosemary, but these plants make a different main ketone, verbenone.
- Also called
- Rosemary ct. verbenone; Corsican rosemary
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