Cardamom Seed Essential Oil Profile
Botanical: Elattaria cardamomum |
Origin: Guatemala |
Method: Steam Distilled
Characteristics:
A colorless to pale yellow liquid with a sweet-spicy, warming fragrance and a woody-balsamic undertone. It blends well with rose, frankincense, orange, bergamot, cinnamon, cloves, caraway seed, ylang-ylang, labdanum, cedarwood, neroli, and oriental-type bases in general.
Principal Constituents:
These are naturally occurring in the essential oil.
- terpinyl acetate
- cineol
- limonene
- sabiene
- linalol
- linalyl acetate
- pinene
- zingiberene
Safety:
Non-toxic, non-irritant, nonsensitizing.
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