Essential oils · Earthy family
Vetiver essential oil
Chrysopogon zizanioides
Hương bài · Poaceae
Dry earth and roots, with a thin layer of smoke. This is the heaviest oil in its group, and the smell barely changes all day.
The scent lives underground, not in the leaves, and the older the root, the deeper the smell. So growing time decides quality more than distilling technique: two years in the ground cannot be shortened.
Many Vietnamese people know this plant from the bundles of hương bài burned at Lunar New Year long before they hear the name vetiver. The same root, two names.
- Plant part
- Roots
- Vietnamese name
- Hương bài
- Scent family
- Earthy
- Plant family
- Poaceae
- 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 Vetiver
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: Hương bài — 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: Poaceae East Indian lemongrass · Java citronella · Lemongrass · Palmarosa
Also from the roots Angelica root · Haitian vetiver
Same method: direct steam distillation Cajeput · Clove basil · Copaiba · Fokienia · Holy basil (tulsi) · Rosemary ct camphor · Rosemary ct verbenone · Tarragon