

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
Named by the house, not on the label, in 3

