Nutmeg essential oil
Myristica fragrans
Nhục đậu khấu · Myristicaceae
Warm spice, sweet, with an opening close to pine that few people expect from a spice.
That opening comes from sabinene and the pinenes, which make up most of the bottle. The “nutmeg” the nose recognises comes from myristicin and a few related compounds that make up only a small part. Once again the most abundant compound is not the one that gives the name.
One fruit gives two spices. The seed is nutmeg, and the red aril wrapped around it is what English calls mace. Their oils are close but not identical, so the plant part on this page is the thing to check against the label.
- Plant part
- Seeds
- Vietnamese name
- Nhục đậu khấu
- Scent family
- Spicy
- Plant family
- Myristicaceae
- 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 Nutmeg
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 seeds Amomum · Black pepper · Carrot seed · Coriander seed · Sweet fennel · Vanilla CO₂
Same method: direct steam distillation Angelica root · East Indian lemongrass · Himalayan cedarwood · Lavender · Opopanax · Peru balsam · Pink pepper · Spike lavender