Essential oils · Citrus family
May chang essential oil
Litsea cubeba
Màng tang · Lauraceae
Lemon and lemongrass meet, sharper than either. In the opening it is so pointed it almost cuts.
It also evaporates very quickly: after ten minutes or so on a smelling strip only a faint green trace remains. That makes it the oil that shows most clearly that the “top note” is a real thing and not just a fancy way of talking.
The tree grows wild all over the mountains of northern Vietnam, with small round berries like peppercorns. It looks like pepper and smells nothing like pepper — a reminder that shape says nothing about smell.
- Plant part
- Seeds
- Vietnamese name
- Màng tang
- Scent family
- Citrus
- 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 May chang
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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 · Ho wood · Indian bay leaf · Ravintsara ct 1,8-cineole
Also from the seeds Amomum · Cardamom · Coriander seed · Nutmeg · Sweet fennel · Vanilla
Same method: direct steam distillation Cypress · Manuka · Myrrh · Spearmint · Sweet fennel · Tagetes · Turmeric · Zedoary (white turmeric)