Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Eucalyptol

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Fresh, cool, camphoraceous-minty; clean and slightly sweet.

What it is

Natural material from terpene oxide isolated from eucalyptus oil.

When you smell it

Top notes: when you spray it.

What perfumers do with it

Adds diffusive, camphor-cool freshness to lavender, rosemary and mint accords.

Worth knowing

The same molecule gives eucalyptus its bite and is a key flavor in rosemary, bay leaf and cardamom.

Also called

1,8-Cineole; cajeputol