Fresh, sharp herbal-spicy aroma with a pronounced camphoraceous and cineole-like lift, reminiscent of crushed bay leaves. A warm, slightly peppery clove-like undertone emerges beneath the green, aromatic top, with a faintly medicinal, eucalyptus-adjacent character.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 70.
Bay Leaf Oil is a yellowish to dark brown liquid. Variations in color occur according to the type of still used and the kind of shipping container.
The odor is fresh-spicy, somewhat medicinal, but it has a lasting, sweet-balsamic undertone. The odor of this oil is quite obnoxious to some people, sickly sweet, nauseating. To others, it is quite fresh and pleasant.
The flavor of this oil is warm, almost pungent, spicy and somewhat bitter.
Bay Leaf Oil is used very extensively in hair lotions, after-shave lotions, and other men's line fragrances. The old-fashioned type of Bay Rum was produced in the former Danish West Indies by distillation of Rum over Bay Leaves.
To the author's knowledge, this oil finds little or no use in flavor work.
The leaves are distilled either with water or with steam. It is customary to add salt to the distillation water in order to increase the temperature and thus complete the distillation of oil more rapidly.