Essential oils · Medicinal family
Peppermint essential oil
Mentha × piperita
Bạc hà cay · Lamiaceae
Cold and sweet at the same time. The cold arrives a beat first, then the round sweetness of the leaf follows.
Compared with cornmint, peppermint has less menthol but more layers, so it is rounder and easier to like, while cornmint is straight and harsh. In both, the cooling sensation is not smell at all but the trigeminal nerve.
The chewing-gum and toothpaste smell you know is mostly isolated menthol. The whole oil has an added grassy, slightly earthy base that pure menthol lacks, and that base is what tells you you are smelling a plant.
- Plant part
- Whole plant
- Vietnamese name
- Bạc hà cay
- Scent family
- Medicinal
- Plant family
- Lamiaceae
- 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.
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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: Lamiaceae Catnip · Cornmint · Holy basil (tulsi) · Indian patchouli · Japanese mint · Lavender · Spearmint · Thyme ct thymol
Also from the whole plant Catnip · Clove basil · Cornmint · Davana · Japanese mint · Spearmint · Sweet marjoram · Thyme ct linalool
Same method: direct steam distillation Clove basil · Cornmint · Eucalyptus dives · Green myrtle · Japanese mint · Java citronella · Neroli · Spearmint