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Tagetes oil

Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Tagetes oil

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Pungent green-fruity; apple peel and sweet herbs with a rubbery-bitter edge.

What it is
Natural oil from steam-distilled flowering plant.
Where it comes from
South Africa, Egypt, India
When you smell it
Top notes: the first minutes.
What perfumers do with it
Tiny amounts add a sharp, fruity-green twist to fruity florals, chypres and green accords.
Worth knowing
Alpha-terthienyl, the phototoxic compound behind its restriction, also makes marigolds natural nematode killers.
Rules
Limited. Phototoxic: 0.01% cap in fine fragrance; T. erecta prohibited
Also called
Marigold oil; Tagetes minuta / T. patula

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