Ingredients · Sweet · dry-down
Periploca root oil
Say itpeh-RIP-loh-kuh root oil
Sweet, warm vanilla and almond with a green cucumber top and a creamy rice note.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled dried roots of Periploca sepium.
- Where it comes from
- China
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: what stays.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds a natural vanilla-almond warmth to gourmand, amber and white-floral accords; dosed very low.
- Worth knowing
- The roots' oil is rich in 2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzaldehyde, a positional isomer of vanillin.
- Also called
- Periploca sepium root oil; Periploca Root EO 10 TEC
Named by the house, not on the label, in 1
