The drawing: artemisia, flowering topThe drawing: artemisia, basal leaf
artemisia

Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Wormwood oil

Intensely bitter, dry-green herb; camphoraceous with a dark aromatic depth.

What it is
Natural oil from steam-distilled leaves and flowering tops.
Where it comes from
Europe and North Africa
When you smell it
Top notes: the first minutes.
What perfumers do with it
Tiny doses add a bitter, absinthe-like green shadow to aromatic and green accords.
Worth knowing
Absinthe takes its name from this plant; the drink's feared madness, blamed on thujone, was largely myth.
Rules
Limited. Thujone-rich; IFRA thujone limits cap its dose
Also called
Artemisia absinthium