Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

White sage oil

Fresh, cooling and strongly camphoraceous, with a mild cineole note like rosemary.

What it is

Natural oil from steam-distilled leaves of Salvia apiana, a silvery shrub of Southern California and Baja California.

When you smell it

Top notes: when you spray it.

What perfumers do with it

A cool camphor-and-eucalyptus herbal note for aromatic accords; a small trade, distilled from farmed plants.

Worth knowing

Wild white sage is overharvested for smudging bundles and incense.

Also called

Salvia apiana leaf oil; Californian white sage