Melaleuca bracteata (black tea tree) oil is dominated by methyl eugenol and methyl chavicol, giving a strongly anisic, sweet-herbal opening reminiscent of tarragon and star anise. A green, slightly camphoraceous nuance sits underneath, with a warm spicy-clove facet appearing as it dries down.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 256.
A yellowish to pale amber or pale olive-green oil
The odor is very delicate, sweet-woody, herbaceous, recalling the odor of dry tea-leaves.
When this oil is available at all, it finds use in perfumery for the note described above, and the oil blends excellently with amyl salicylate, hydroxy-citronellal, dimethyl phenylethyl carbinol, linalool, beta-gamma-hexenol, phenylethylalcohol, ionones and methylionones, mimosa absolute, sage clary oil or absolute, pine needle oil, juniperberry oil, ylang-ylang.
Steam distillation