Huile essentielle d'épinette noire
Black spruce oil

Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Black spruce oil

Fresh, sweet balsamic conifer, slightly fruity and airy.

What it is
Natural oil from steam-distilled needles and twigs.
Where it comes from
Canada (Quebec)
When you smell it
Top notes: when you spray it.
What perfumers do with it
Clean, cool conifer freshness for aromatic, fougère and woody accords.
Worth knowing
Spruce beer, brewed from spruce tips, was drunk by 18th-century sailors to fend off scurvy.
Rules
Limited. Pine-family oil: must be kept unoxidized (peroxide specification)
Also called
Picea mariana needle oil

Not on the label of any of the 1080 perfumes read so far.