

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
Named by the house, not on the label, in 2

