Cardamom essential oil
Elettaria cardamomum
Bạch đậu khấu · Zingiberaceae
Cool at the top, warm and sweet in the body. The opening is close to camphor, then it moves into a sweet spice layer a little like dried lemon peel.
Two compounds share the work: 1,8-cineole gives the coolness, terpinyl acetate the warm sweetness. Few spices carry both ends of the temperature scale in the same seed.
Do not confuse it with the black cardamom in a pot of phở. That is a different plant, with large pods, smoked, so it smells heavily of smoke and camphor. Green cardamom has small pods with green skins and no smoke at all. The two are often mixed up because English calls both of them cardamom.
- Plant part
- Seeds
- Vietnamese name
- Bạch đậu khấu
- 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 Cardamom
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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: Zingiberaceae Galangal · Ginger · Turmeric · Wild ginger · Zedoary (white turmeric)
Also from the seeds Black pepper · Carrot seed · Coriander seed · May chang · Pink pepper · Star anise
Same method: direct steam distillation Carrot seed · Catnip · Copaiba · Fingerroot · Indian patchouli · Oregano · Spikenard · White pine