Nutmeg oil

At a glance

Distilled from nutmeg seeds, giving a warm, spicy-woody character used in spicy and oriental compositions. It is valued by perfumers for this distinctive character and used as a building block within larger fragrance compositions.

One of several trade forms of Nutmeg catalogued here, see the full family →

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