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Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note
Siberian fir needle oil
Sweet, balsamic Christmas-tree freshness; clean, soft pine-citrus.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled needles and twigs.
- Where it comes from
- Russia (Siberia)
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- The go-to 'Christmas tree' note for fresh, green-balsamic effects in fougères and home fragrance.
- Worth knowing
- Its signature comes largely from bornyl acetate, often about a third of the oil.
- Rules
- Limited. Pine-family oil: must be kept unoxidized (peroxide specification)
- Also called
- Abies sibirica needle oil
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