A rare Italian aromatic absolute reminiscent of wild thyme and oregano, with a warm, spicy-herbaceous character driven by thymol and carvacrol-type phenols. Dry, slightly medicinal and leathery in the drydown, with a savory Mediterranean herb quality.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 243.
The oil is yellow.
The odor reminded the author of tagette (“marigold”) and wormwood, later, also of tobacco. It apparently has a dark-foliage type of Compositae fragrance.
Oil of Lippia Daunensis may very well find a future in the African perfume industry, but the oil does apparently not present odor characteristics of sufficient interest to the European and American perfume houses.
The oil is steam distilled from the flowering tops of the plant which grows wild and very abundantly in Somaliland.