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Celery

Ingredients · Spices · dry-down

Celery seed oil

Warm celery, savoury-herbal and sweet with a lovage-like, nutty depth.

What it is
Natural oil from seeds of Apium graveolens.
Where it comes from
India, France
When you smell it
Dry-down: what stays.
What perfumers do with it
Traces add savoury, warm, lasting depth to fougères, chypres and spicy accords.
Worth knowing
Its lingering celery smell comes from phthalides, molecules also found in lovage.
Also called
Apium graveolens seed oil