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Marjoram

Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Marjoram oil

Say itMAR-jur-um oil

Warm, sweet-spicy herb; woody, slightly camphoraceous and nutmeg-like.

What it is
Natural oil from steam-distilled flowering herb.
Where it comes from
Egypt, France, Spain
When you smell it
Top notes: when you spray it.
What perfumers do with it
Adds a warm, soft herbal-spicy note to aromatic and spicy accords.
Worth knowing
'Spanish marjoram' oil is actually distilled from a thyme, Thymus mastichina, and smells of eucalyptus.
Also called
Sweet marjoram; Origanum majorana

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