Coriander seed essential oil
Coriandrum sativum
Rau mùi · Apiaceae
Sweet, lightly woody, slightly floral, with a little warm spice. It is nothing like coriander leaf, and that surprises almost everyone.
The oil is distilled from the seed and is up to two-thirds linalool, so it is closer to lavender and rosewood than to the bunch of herbs at the market. The pungent smell of the leaf comes from a completely different group of aldehydes, which are almost absent from ripe seed.
People in northern Vietnam have a ready reference: the pot of mùi già water on the last afternoon of the lunar year, used to bathe before Tet. Mùi già is coriander that has flowered and set seed, and the smell of that water sits right between leaf and seed — much sweeter and warmer than the leaf.
- Plant part
- Seeds
- Vietnamese name
- Rau mùi
- Scent family
- Spicy
- Plant family
- Apiaceae
- 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 Coriander seed
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: Rau mùi — 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: Apiaceae Angelica root · Carrot seed · Sweet fennel
Also from the seeds Amomum · Black pepper · Juniper berry · Pink pepper · Sweet fennel · Vanilla
Same method: direct steam distillation Amomum · Clary sage · Cornmint · Galangal · Ho wood · Ravintsara ct 1,8-cineole · Rosalina · Siberian fir