The plate: rosemary
Planche XXI · RomarinRosemary · Salvia rosmarinus (formerly Rosmarinus officinalis)

Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Rosemary verbenone oil

Say itRosemary VUR-buh-nohn oil

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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