Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Thyme oil

Say itTYME oil

Warm, sharp medicinal-phenolic herb; spicy, dry, slightly sweet.

What it is

Natural oil from steam-distilled flowering herb.

Where it comes from

Spain, Morocco, France

When you smell it

Top notes: the first minutes.

What perfumers do with it

Adds a warm, spicy-herbal accent to masculine aromatics and chypres, in small doses.

Worth knowing

Thymol, its main molecule, is one of the antiseptics in original Listerine mouthwash.

Also called

Red thyme; Thymus vulgaris / T. zygis, thymol type