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Thyme

Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Thyme oil

Say itTYME oil

Warm, sharp medicinal-phenolic herb; spicy, dry, slightly sweet.

What it is
Natural oil from steam-distilled flowering herb.
Where it comes from
Spain, Morocco, France
When you smell it
Top notes: when you spray it.
What perfumers do with it
Adds a warm, spicy-herbal accent to masculine aromatics and chypres, in small doses.
Worth knowing
Thymol, its main molecule, is one of the antiseptics in original Listerine mouthwash.
Also called
Red thyme; Thymus vulgaris / T. zygis, thymol type