Essential oils · Floral family
Ylang ylang essential oil
Cananga odorata
Ngọc lan tây · Annonaceae
Sweet, dense, creamy, with a note of ripe banana in the middle. It is one of the heaviest floral smells, and close up it is almost overwhelming.
The flowers are distilled continuously for many hours and the oil is drawn off in fractions over time. The first fraction is called extra, the brightest and most floral; the later fractions grow deeper and lean towards wood. “Complete” is all of them together.
So two bottles both labelled ylang ylang can be far apart, depending on which fraction they are. This is an oil to smell at arm’s length first, because up close it hides the very layers most worth smelling.
- Plant part
- Flowers
- Vietnamese name
- Ngọc lan tây
- Scent family
- Floral
- Plant family
- Annonaceae
- 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 Ylang ylang
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 flowers Clary sage · Clove bud · Helichrysum · Lavender · Osmanthus · Pomelo blossom · Spike lavender · St John’s wort
Same method: direct steam distillation Black spruce · Cajeput · Carrot seed · Frankincense · Frankincense frereana · Frankincense sacra · Frankincense serrata · Vetiver