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mint

Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Spearmint oil

Sweet, green minty-herbal; chewing-gum mint without peppermint's chill.

What it is
Natural oil from steam-distilled leaves.
Where it comes from
USA (Pacific Northwest), India, China
When you smell it
Top notes: the first minutes.
What perfumers do with it
Adds a sweet, playful mint twist to fresh aromatic and citrus accords.
Rules
Limited. Mostly carvone; IFRA carvone limits cap its dose
Also called
Mentha spicata (native) / M. × gracilis (Scotch)

Named by the house, not on the label, in 1