A pungent, sharply minty herbal oil reminiscent of spearmint crossed with a weedy, slightly medicinal green note. Cooler and more camphoraceous than peppermint, with a rough, almost acrid herbaceous edge and a persistent green-mint drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 318.
Pale yellow, mobile oil.
Fresh-herbaceous, strong and bitter-minty odor, a rather thin body and a faintly woody dryout which varies according to the age of the oil.
The taste is sharp, bitter and somewhat burning.
Occasionally used in industrial perfumes where great strength, masking power and low cost are called for. It blends well with rosemary oil, pine needle oils, lavandin oil, ocotea pretiosa, distilled citrus oils, methyl salicylate, lemongrass oil, citronella oil, dipentene, terpineol and similar materials which are often used in the above types of fragrance.
Steam distilled from the freshly harvested, slightly dried, flowering herb.