Turmeric essential oil
Curcuma longa
Nghệ · Zingiberaceae
Earthy, slightly pungent, with a dry woody note. It is heavy and lasting, with no bright part at the top.
The smell is nothing like the colour. Beginners usually expect something warm and golden and are surprised to get something closer to damp roots, because the yellow comes from curcumin, which is almost odourless.
In Vietnamese cooking, turmeric nearly always comes with something else: turmeric with fish, turmeric with fermented rice, turmeric with galangal. Smelling turmeric on its own is therefore a quite different experience, and a little unfamiliar even to practised cooks.
- Plant part
- Rhizome
- Vietnamese name
- Nghệ
- Scent family
- Spicy
- Plant family
- Zingiberaceae
- 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 Turmeric
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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: Zingiberaceae Amomum · Fingerroot · Galangal · Ginger · Zedoary (white turmeric)
Also from the rhizome Fingerroot · Galangal · Ginger · Spikenard · Zedoary (white turmeric)
Same method: direct steam distillation Bay laurel · Fingerroot · Honey myrtle · Lemon eucalyptus · Mugwort · Scots pine · Virginian cedarwood · Zedoary (white turmeric)