Amomum essential oil
Amomum villosum
Sa nhân · Zingiberaceae
Cool camphor at the top, then a sweet, warm pine-resin note. The two layers are quite distinct.
The cool layer is camphor. The warm sweetness is bornyl acetate, the compound that also gives many conifer oils their sweetness. A spice seed that smells of both the medicine cabinet and a pine forest is unusual.
Amomum belongs with green and black cardamom, three ginger-family seeds that are often mistranslated for one another. Green cardamom is cool and sweet, black cardamom smoky, and amomum the most camphoraceous of the three.
- Plant part
- Seeds
- Vietnamese name
- Sa nhân
- Scent family
- Spicy
- Plant family
- Zingiberaceae
- Lots published
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Published lots
No lots yet. When the first lot arrives, its GC/MS analysis will be published here — unedited, with the lot number printed on the bottle label.
Buy Amomum
This oil is in the catalogue but no lot has been brought in, so it is not on sale yet. Message us if you need it — what we stock next depends on what buyers ask for.
In the scent dictionary: Sa nhân — a description of the smell, the compounds behind it, and how to smell it for yourself.
Elsewhere in the catalogue
No lot of this oil yet. The oils below are close to it botanically or in how they are extracted — some of them already have lots.
Same plant family: Zingiberaceae Cardamom · Fingerroot · Ginger · Turmeric · Wild ginger
Also from the seeds Black pepper · Cardamom · Star anise · Sweet fennel · Vanilla · Vanilla CO₂
Same method: direct steam distillation Blue tansy · Eucalyptus globulus · Immortelle Madagascar · Java citronella · Kaffir lime leaf · Lemongrass · Palmarosa · Saro