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Myrtle

Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Myrtle oil

Fresh camphor-green with a sweet, spicy, slightly floral herbal note.

What it is
Natural oil from steam-distilled leaves and twigs.
Where it comes from
Corsica, Morocco, Tunisia
When you smell it
Top notes: when you spray it.
What perfumers do with it
Adds Mediterranean, maquis-like herbal freshness to colognes and aromatic accords.
Worth knowing
Renaissance 'angel's water' (eau d'ange), a famed skin tonic, was distilled from myrtle.
Also called
Myrtus communis; red / green myrtle