Essential oils · Medicinal family
Baeckea essential oil
Baeckea frutescens
Dầu chổi · Myrtaceae
Fresh and airy, with a light camphor and a touch of pine. It is close to cajeput but sweeter and softer.
The Baeckea shrub grows on the sandy, barren hills of central Vietnam, and its oil is a long-standing product of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh and Hue. The compounds most often recorded in it are pinene and 1,8-cineole — the same two that make up the smell of pine and of cajeput.
People in central Vietnam have known this oil as a household staple for generations, long before anyone called it an essential oil. Outside that region it is almost unknown, and very little has been written about it internationally.
- Plant part
- Whole plant
- Vietnamese name
- Dầu chổi
- Scent family
- Medicinal
- Plant family
- Myrtaceae
- 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.
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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: Myrtaceae Clove bud · Fragonia · Guava leaf · Honey myrtle · Kunzea · Lemon myrtle · Manuka
Also from the whole plant Basil ct linalool · Basil ct methyl chavicol · Clove basil · Holy basil (tulsi) · Mugwort · Rosemary ct camphor · Spearmint · Vietnamese balm
Same method: direct steam distillation Elemi · Fokienia · Fragonia · Ho wood · Hyssop ct 1,8-cineole · Mastic · Rosewood · White spruce