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Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note
Tagetes oil
Say ittuh-JEE-teez oil
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
Named by the house, not on the label, in 1
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