Cinnamon leaf essential oil
Cinnamomum verum
Lá quế · Lauraceae
Clove, warm, slightly woody, and much less sweet than cinnamon bark. Anyone expecting the smell of a cinnamon stick will find it strange.
The leaf and the bark of the same cinnamon tree give two oils with almost nothing in common. The bark is rich in cinnamaldehyde, so it is sweet and hot. The leaf is rich in eugenol, so it leans firmly towards clove and holy basil, and sits closer to those two than to its own bark.
Leaf oil is many times cheaper than bark oil, which is why it is sometimes blended into bark oil. A bottle labelled cinnamon bark whose analysis shows unusually high eugenol is a bottle worth asking more about. The plant part on the label and on the analysis must say the same thing.
- Plant part
- Leaves
- Vietnamese name
- Lá quế
- 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 Cinnamon leaf
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: Lá quế — 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: Lauraceae Bay laurel · Ceylon cinnamon · Chinese cassia · Indian bay leaf · May chang · Rosewood
Also from the leaves Fragonia · Green myrtle · Guava leaf · Java citronella · Manuka · Melissa · Pinyon pine · Red myrtle
Same method: direct steam distillation Everlasting Madagascar · Green myrtle · Guava leaf · Juniper berry · Mastic · Norway pine · Red myrtle · Saro