Ocimum gratissimum (clove basil / African basil) opens with a sharp herbaceous-green top reminiscent of sweet basil, quickly revealing a strong warm-spicy clove character from its high eugenol content. The drydown is aromatic and slightly medicinal, with a dry phenolic warmth that lingers longer than typical basil oil.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 285.
The oil is dark yellow to orange-yellow or brownish in color.
The oil has a medicinal-spicy, warm and somewhat herbaceous odor.
The flavor is warm, slightly bitter-aromatic, burning and having a sweet-medicinal aftertaste.
It may serve as a local medicinal-perfumery oil and as a replacement for other oils in case of scarcity.
The entire overground parts of the plant are steam distilled in the flowering season.