

Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note
Sage oil
Warm, camphoraceous herb with a dry, sharp, slightly spicy edge.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled leaves.
- Where it comes from
- Balkans (Albania, Croatia), Spain
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds a dry, masculine herbal accent to aromatic fougères; used sparingly.
- Worth knowing
- 'Salvia' comes from Latin 'salvere', to be healthy, reflecting its long medicinal reputation.
- Rules
- Limited. Thujone-rich; IFRA thujone limits cap its dose
- Also called
- Dalmatian sage; Salvia officinalis leaf oil
Named by the house, not on the label, in 5


