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Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Tea tree oil

Sharp, medicinal-herbal with a spicy, earthy camphor note.

What it is
Natural oil from steam-distilled leaves.
Where it comes from
Australia (New South Wales)
When you smell it
Top notes: when you spray it.
What perfumers do with it
Signals 'clean' and 'purifying' in skincare and functional fragrance; rarely in fine perfumery.
Worth knowing
Aged, oxidized tea tree oil is far likelier to trigger skin allergies than fresh oil.
Also called
Melaleuca alternifolia leaf oil

Not on the label of any of the 1181 perfumes read so far.