Essential oils · Medicinal family
German chamomile essential oil
Matricaria chamomilla
Cúc Đức · Asteraceae
Sweet hay, herbs, with a little tobacco and ripe fruit underneath. It is much deeper and denser than Roman chamomile, and has no apple note.
The oil is ink-blue, and that colour does not exist in the flower. The pigment is chamazulene, formed inside the still when a colourless compound in the flower meets heat and steam. In other words, the blue is a trace of distillation itself.
The colour is also a check. A fresh oil is deep blue. Kept too long or stored badly it drifts to green and then brown, because chamazulene oxidises. A brown bottle of German chamomile is a bottle past its time.
- Plant part
- Flowers
- Vietnamese name
- Cúc Đức
- Scent family
- Medicinal
- Plant family
- Asteraceae
- 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 German chamomile
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: Asteraceae Blue tansy · Davana · Everlasting Madagascar · Immortelle Madagascar · Moroccan blue chamomile · Tagetes
Also from the flowers Champaca · Everlasting Madagascar · Immortelle Madagascar · Neroli · Night jasmine · St John’s wort · Tagetes · Ylang ylang
Same method: direct steam distillation Atlas cedarwood · East Indian lemongrass · Frankincense serrata · Haitian vetiver · Lemon verbena · Rosemary ct verbenone · Thyme ct linalool · White fir