Essential oils · Medicinal family
Tea tree essential oil
Melaleuca alternifolia
Tràm trà · Myrtaceae
Medicinal, earthy, slightly pungent, with a thin camphor note at the edges. Not sweet, and not trying to smell nice.
The main compound is terpinen-4-ol, not 1,8-cineole, and that is where it differs from cajeput. The two trees are in the same genus and their common names are close, but cajeput is astringent and bright while tea tree is deeper and cloudier.
This is the oil most often bought by mistake in its group, because labels frequently say only one word, “tràm”. The botanical name is the only thing that tells the bottles apart: alternifolia is tea tree, cajuputi is cajeput.
- Plant part
- Leaves
- Vietnamese name
- Tràm trà
- Scent family
- Medicinal
- Plant family
- Myrtaceae
- 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 Tea tree
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: Myrtaceae Baeckea · Clove bud · Eucalyptus dives · Eucalyptus radiata · Lemon eucalyptus · Lemon myrtle · Red myrtle
Also from the leaves Cypress · Engelmann spruce · Eucalyptus globulus · Honey myrtle · Melissa · Perilla · Petitgrain · Saro
Same method: direct steam distillation Atlas cedarwood · Catnip · Cypress · Fragonia · Frankincense · Himalayan cedarwood · Holy basil (tulsi) · Virginian cedarwood