Essential oils · Medicinal family
Spearmint essential oil
Mentha spicata
Bạc hà lục · Lamiaceae
Mint that is sweet and soft, not cold. It has an unmistakable minty smell but none of peppermint’s bite, which makes it far easier to like.
The reason is that it contains almost no menthol. Its main compound is carvone, one of the best-known examples in the chemistry of smell: the molecule exists in two forms that are mirror images of each other. One form smells of spearmint, the other of caraway seed, and the human nose tells them apart easily.
The Vietnamese herb húng lủi, eaten with rice noodles, smells very close to this. Anyone who knows it will recognise spearmint at once — and will understand why it is nothing like a peppermint sweet.
- Plant part
- Whole plant
- Vietnamese name
- Bạc hà lục
- 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 Basil ct methyl chavicol · Catnip · Cornmint · Patchouli · Perilla · Rosemary ct verbenone · Thyme ct linalool · Thyme ct thymol
Also from the whole plant Basil ct linalool · Catnip · Cornmint · Davana · Mugwort · Rosemary ct camphor · Thyme ct linalool · Thyme ct thymol
Same method: direct steam distillation Cornmint · Eucalyptus dives · Eucalyptus radiata · Lemon eucalyptus · May chang · Rosemary ct camphor · Sweet fennel · Tagetes