Huile essentielle de racine de valériane
Ingredients · Earth & moss · dry-down
Valerian root oil
Say itvuh-LEER-ee-un root oil
Pungent, cheesy-sweaty, musty earth with woody-balsamic, slightly animalic depth.
- What it is
- Natural oil from roots and rhizomes of Valeriana officinalis.
- Where it comes from
- Europe and Asia
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: what stays.
- What perfumers do with it
- Trace-level animalic-earthy accent in chypre, leather, moss and forest-floor accords.
- Worth knowing
- Cats react to valerian much as they do to catnip, thanks to compounds such as actinidine.
- Also called
- Valeriana officinalis
Not on the label of any of the 1080 perfumes read so far.