Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note
Bay laurel leaf oil
Fresh, spicy-green herbal; eucalyptus-clove note over a warm, woody undertone.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled leaves.
- Where it comes from
- Turkey, the Balkans, Morocco
- When you smell it
- Top notes: when you spray it.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds aromatic, spicy-fresh sophistication to fougères, colognes and herbal masculines.
- Worth knowing
- Not to be confused with 'bay oil' from the West Indian bay tree, which smells of clove.
- Rules
- Limited. Its methyl eugenol content counts toward IFRA limits
- Also called
- Laurus nobilis leaf oil; sweet bay
On the label of 7 of the 1181 perfumes read so far
Absolute AphrodisiacInitio · printed “Laurus nobilis leaf oil”
Oud for Greatness NeoInitio · printed “Laurus nobilis leaf oil”
RemainAmouage · printed “Laurus nobilis leaf oil”
Black LacquerTom Ford · printed “Laurus nobilis (laurel) leaf oil”
Story of Your LifeEtat Libre d'Orange · printed “Laurus nobilis leaf oil”Rose PrickTom Ford · printed “Laurus nobilis (laurel) leaf oil”
