Essential oils · Floral family
Champaca essential oil
Magnolia × alba
Hoa ngọc lan trắng · Magnoliaceae
Sweet flowers, with ripe fruit and a note of tea. It is brighter and airier than jasmine, without the heavy indolic layer.
White champaca oil is very rich in linalool, and that is why it is so light. The fruit and tea come from compounds making up only a few percent, and they are what separate champaca from a plain bottle of linalool.
Anyone who grew up in Vietnam has met this smell: white ngọc lan flowers wrapped in a leaf and placed on the altar, or fallen all over a pagoda courtyard in the early morning. The fresh flower smells richer and a little headier than the oil, because part of it does not survive extraction.
- Plant part
- Flowers
- Method
- Solvent extraction
- Vietnamese name
- Hoa ngọc lan trắng
- Scent family
- Floral
- Plant family
- Magnoliaceae
- 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 Champaca
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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.
Also from the flowers Helichrysum · Jasmine grandiflorum · Jasmine sambac · Lavandin · Lotus · Pomelo blossom · Spike lavender · Ylang ylang
Same method: solvent extraction Benzoin · Jasmine grandiflorum · Jasmine sambac · Labdanum · Lotus · Pomelo blossom