Essential oils · Floral family
Palmarosa essential oil
Cymbopogon martinii
Sả hoa hồng · Poaceae
Rose, but dry, with grass lying just beneath. The opening is sweet, then the grassy stalk shows through — something real rose never has.
That sweetness is geraniol, the very compound behind a large part of the smell of rose. So the nose says “rose” before it realises it is smelling a grass, and that moment of being out of step is the most interesting thing about this oil.
It lasts on a smelling strip longer than any other lemongrass relative. It is still there overnight, when lemongrass has faded since the afternoon before.
- Plant part
- Leaves
- Vietnamese name
- Sả hoa hồng
- Scent family
- Floral
- Plant family
- Poaceae
- 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 Palmarosa
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: Poaceae East Indian lemongrass · Haitian vetiver · Java citronella · Vetiver
Also from the leaves Cypress · Douglas fir · Java citronella · Kaffir lime leaf · Lemon verbena · Ponderosa pine · Thuja · White spruce
Same method: direct steam distillation Copaiba · Douglas fir · Guava leaf · Hops · Java citronella · Sweet fennel · Thuja · Utah juniper