Perilla essential oil
Perilla frutescens
Tía tô · Lamiaceae
Green, warm, slightly spicy, with a note close to cumin and cinnamon that no other herb has. Anyone who has eaten rice porridge or noodles with tía tô will recognise it from the first breath.
That signature comes from perillaldehyde, a compound found almost only in this plant. Fresh leaves have an extra green, slightly fishy note from bruising, while the oil keeps the warm spice and loses the freshness.
Perilla has chemotypes too. The perillaldehyde-rich type is the one grown as a herb, and the smell you know. Other perilla lines are rich in perilla ketone, smell entirely different and are not eaten, so for this oil the lot analysis matters more than usual.
- Plant part
- Leaves
- Vietnamese name
- Tía tô
- Scent family
- Green
- 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.
Buy Perilla
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.
In the scent dictionary: Tía tô — a description of the smell, the compounds behind it, and how to smell it for yourself.
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 Bee balm · Bergamot mint · Catnip · Clary sage · Japanese mint · Melissa · Patchouli · Rosemary ct verbenone
Also from the leaves Engelmann spruce · Indian patchouli · Lemon verbena · Lolot pepper leaf · Melissa · Palmarosa · Sitka spruce · White spruce
Same method: direct steam distillation Engelmann spruce · Haitian vetiver · Lemon myrtle · Melissa · Peru balsam · Sitka spruce · White spruce · Wild ginger