Sharp, hot herbaceous oil dominated by carvacrol — pungent, dry-spicy oregano with a phenolic, almost medicinal bite. Warms into a leathery, tobacco-adjacent facet with faint camphor edges.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 304.
Spanish or Israeli Origanum Oil is a dark brownish-red or grayish-red or purple to dark orange colored liquid.
possessing a strong, tar-like, herbaceous, but very refreshing odor. The topnote is slightly green-camphoraceous, herbaceous, and the body is rich, dry-woody, somewhat reminiscent of cade and phenols.
The flavor is somewhat burning, warm-phenolic with a rich herbaceous undertone. The flavor becomes fairly pleasant only in high dilution.
The oil is used in perfumery for its powerful refreshing notes and its spicy-herbaceous effect. The medicinal note is often utilized in soap perfumes of the medicated type where this type of odor agrees with the special purpose of the soap.
The oil is also used in flavor work, but the milder types of origanum oil are often preferred for this purpose, or, still better, thyme oil is used.
The oil is steam distilled from the dried, flowering herb of Thymus Capitatus.