Sharp, pungent herbal aroma with a hot, phenolic bite from thymol. Powerful and medicinal on top, softening into a warm, dry aromatic-herbaceous character with a slight woody-camphoraceous edge.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 375.
Red Thyme Oil is a brownish-red, orange-red or grayish-brown colored liquid, rich and powerful.
The oil is rich and powerful, sweet, and warm-herbaceous in odor, somewhat spicy and distinctly aromatic.
The flavor is equally warm, somewhat biting, but not bitter or tarry. A sharp and lasting mouthfeel is accompanied by a spicy-herbaceous taste and an outstanding richness in body.
In perfumery, the oil finds some use in soap perfumes where its power and freshness can introduce a hint of medicinal notes, often desirable in certain types of soap or detergent. The oil exerts an excellent masking effect over tarry odors and thus illustrates brilliantly an example of 'distracting' odor effect. Added to lotion perfumes or colognes in trace amounts, thyme oil may lend body and sweet freshness in lavenders, fougére-colognes, citrus-colognes, spicy after-shaves, etc.
The oil is used extensively in flavors for food products, in sauces, dressings, pickles, canned meat, etc. In pharmaceutical preparations, the excellent germicidal properties of the oil are exploited in mouth waters, gargles, dentifrices, and for numerous types of disinfectants. Cough syrups, lozenges, etc. are often activated with thyme oil in combination with peppermint, eucalyptus, etc.