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Tarragon

Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Tarragon oil

Say itTAIR-uh-gon oil

Sweet anisic herb with green, hay-like and faintly spicy notes.

What it is
Natural oil from steam-distilled flowering herb.
Where it comes from
mainly France and Hungary
When you smell it
Top notes: when you spray it.
What perfumers do with it
Adds an anise-green herbal twist to citrus, lavender and fougère accords.
Worth knowing
'Estragon' and 'dracunculus' both mean 'little dragon', perhaps for its coiling, serpent-like roots.
Rules
Limited. Mostly estragole; IFRA estragole limits cap its dose
Also called
Estragon; Artemisia dracunculus