An African basil variant with a sharp, camphoraceous-herbal opening reminiscent of sweet basil but greener and more medicinal. The heart reveals clove-eugenol warmth mixed with a peppery, slightly minty freshness, drying down to a dry aromatic-woody green facet.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 286.
The oil is a yellowish to brownish liquid.
The oil has a warm and aromatic, spicy-camphoraceous odor, even when the oil is decamphorized.
The oil blends excellently with lavender, lavandin, rosemary, petitgrain, etc. in the old-fashioned Rondeletia perfume type, but the author does not believe in a future for this oil in perfumery.
The essential oil is steam distilled from the overground parts of the flowering plant.