Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · heart note

Yarrow oil

Say itYAIR-oh oil

Sharp camphoraceous herb, sweet-green, with a dry, bitter edge.

What it is

Natural oil from steam-distilled flowering tops.

Where it comes from

mainly Eastern Europe

When you smell it

Heart: the first hours.

What perfumers do with it

Rare natural herbal accent; adds a cool green-camphor note to aromatic accords.

Worth knowing

Its genus, Achillea, honors Achilles, who in legend treated his soldiers' wounds with yarrow.

Also called

Achillea millefolium