Essential oils · Medicinal family
Wintergreen essential oil
Gaultheria fragrantissima
Wintergreen · Ericaceae
Sweet, cooling, medicinal, and so familiar that almost everyone names something else when they smell it: heat rub, pain patches, massage cream.
There is a reason for that familiarity. Almost the whole bottle is a single compound, methyl salicylate, and that is the very compound in all those products. Few essential oils smell of exactly one molecule like this.
For the same reason, it is the oil most easily replaced with synthetic methyl salicylate. And it has to be said plainly: an ordinary GC/MS analysis cannot tell the two apart, because the molecules are identical. Only isotope measurement can separate them, and that is a real limit of the method this site relies on.
- Plant part
- Leaves
- Vietnamese name
- Wintergreen
- Scent family
- Medicinal
- Plant family
- Ericaceae
- 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 Wintergreen
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.
Also from the leaves Bay laurel · Eucalyptus dives · Eucalyptus radiata · Lemon eucalyptus · Lemon myrtle · Pinyon pine · Utah juniper · White fir
Same method: direct steam distillation Angelica root · Balsam fir · Bee balm · Clary sage · Clove bud · Fragonia · Indian bay leaf · Tagetes