Ceylon cinnamon essential oil
Cinnamomum verum
Quế Ceylon · Lauraceae
Sweet, warm, soft, with a thin layer of flowers and clove under the cinnamon. Less hot than Vietnamese cinnamon, and with more layers.
Ceylon cinnamon bark has less cinnamaldehyde than Vietnamese cassia from Tra My or Chinese cassia, but more eugenol and linalool. So Vietnamese cinnamon is strong, straight and hot, while Ceylon is gentler and more complex. Neither is “better”; they are two different smells.
You can tell them apart by the quills too: Ceylon cinnamon is many paper-thin layers rolled together, cassia a single thick layer curled around a hollow. What is sold in Vietnamese markets is almost all cassia.
- Plant part
- Bark
- Vietnamese name
- Quế Ceylon
- Scent family
- Spicy
- Plant family
- Lauraceae
- 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 Ceylon cinnamon
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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: Lauraceae Cassia bark · Chinese cassia · Cinnamon leaf · Indian bay leaf · Ravintsara ct 1,8-cineole · Rosewood
Also from the bark Cassia bark · Chinese cassia
Same method: direct steam distillation Black spruce · Chinese cassia · Coriander seed · Elemi · Indian bay leaf · Kunzea · Peppermint · Ravintsara ct 1,8-cineole