Essential Oil Cumin

Botanical Name

Cuminum cyminum / L.

Benefits and Qualities

Cumin essential oil comes from the seeds of the plant. It has been associated without the least hesitation to diverse stages of human nourishment because it possesses awakening and digestive virtues. In high doeses, cumin essential oil becomes an analgesic and, in combination with citrus essences, fights insomnia.

Production

Essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation of the ripe fruit of cuminum cyminum L.

The Plant

Just how long has cumin graced the lives of humans? Latest estimate: 5000 years. It is one of the most ancient plants of which we have discovered traces, specifically in Egypt, in the pyramids. Like wheat, cumin is beaten with a flail, a scene described in the Bible. The Romans used it to make a paste with which they then painted their breads. From the Middle Ages until our own times, cumin has been used in soups and in chicken and fish dinners. Five thousand years of this fragrance has not yet worn out our palate.

Caution

Avoid contact with eyes and mucous membranes. Keep away from children.

Principes aromatiques

Cuminaldehyde, gamma terpinene, paracymene, beta-pinene, menthadienals

Parfume-Creation

A sweet, green, spicy, anisy odour very close to culinary cumin. Of striking character. A heterogenous nuancer. Can only be used in miniscule quantities.

Description olfactive

Heart note. Oily odour; aromatic, woody.