Clove basil essential oil
Ocimum gratissimum
Hương nhu trắng · Lamiaceae
Clove, hot, medicinal, stronger and coarser than holy basil. The green leaf is there, but the spice drowns it.
Clove basil in Vietnam is usually very rich in eugenol — so rich that at one time it was grown on a large scale just to distil eugenol for industry. Elsewhere in the world the species also has a thymol-rich form that smells completely different, so the chemotype is worth checking.
Set it beside holy basil, cinnamon leaf and clove, and you have four unrelated plants converging on one compound. Of the four, clove basil is the straightest and has the fewest layers.
- Plant part
- Whole plant
- Vietnamese name
- Hương nhu trắng
- Scent family
- Spicy
- Plant family
- Lamiaceae
- 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 Clove basil
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.
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: Lamiaceae Bee balm · Holy basil (tulsi) · Rosemary ct camphor · Rosemary ct verbenone · Spike lavender · Sweet marjoram · Thyme ct linalool · Vietnamese balm
Also from the whole plant Bergamot mint · Holy basil (tulsi) · Hyssop ct 1,8-cineole · Oregano · Rosemary ct camphor · Rosemary ct verbenone · Thyme ct linalool · Vietnamese balm
Same method: direct steam distillation Carrot seed · Ceylon cinnamon · Holy basil (tulsi) · Niaouli ct 1,8-cineole · Pink pepper · Rosemary ct camphor · Rosemary ct verbenone · Ylang ylang