

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
Named by the house, not on the label, in 2