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Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Tea tree oil

Sharp, medicinal-herbal with a spicy, earthy camphor note.

What it is
Natural oil from steam-distilled leaves.
Where it comes from
Australia (New South Wales)
When you smell it
Top notes: the first minutes.
What perfumers do with it
Signals 'clean' and 'purifying' in skincare and functional fragrance; rarely in fine perfumery.
Worth knowing
Aged, oxidized tea tree oil is far likelier to trigger skin allergies than fresh oil.
Also called
Melaleuca alternifolia leaf oil