Essential oils · Floral family
Geranium essential oil
Pelargonium graveolens
Phong lữ · Geraniaceae
Rose with leaves. The sweetness is close to rose, but it comes with a green, slightly minty edge that real rose does not have.
The oil is distilled from the leaves, not the flowers, and it is rich in citronellol and geraniol, exactly the two major compounds of rose. So the nose says “rose” first, and only a few seconds later notices the leaf.
That closeness is why geranium has long been used to extend or replace rose in blending. Setting the two bottles side by side is a good way to learn what real rose has that those two compounds do not bring.
- Plant part
- Leaves
- Vietnamese name
- Phong lữ
- Scent family
- Floral
- Plant family
- Geraniaceae
- 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 Geranium
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.
Also from the leaves Indian bay leaf · Kunzea · Larch / Tamarack · Ravintsara ct 1,8-cineole · Rosalina · Saro · Tea tree · Utah juniper
Same method: direct steam distillation Ceylon cinnamon · Chinese cassia · Davana · Fokienia · Indian bay leaf · Sitka spruce · Sweet marjoram · Utah juniper