Essential Oil Pepper Leaf

Botanical Name

Pimenta dioica / L.

Benefits and Qualities

Pepper leaf essential oil possesses the active ingredients found in the seed. In this way, this essential oil is simultaneously a gastric stimulant and a diuretic. In external usage it has revulsive and decongestant attributes.

Production

Essential oil obtained by steam distillation of the leaves of pimenta dioica L. (Myrtaceaes)

The Plant

Pepper propagates like a house afire. It was Christopher Columbus who introduced it to Europe. Soon cultivated in Spain, it went on to conquer Italy, Germany, and Hungary. Nothing impeded its expansion. Within only a few decades it had completed its world voyage. Not simply capable of acclimatising in any locale, pepper quickly plays a primary role in the numerous cultures which have welcomed it, particularly those in Asia.

Caution

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

Principes aromatiques

Eugenol, methyl eugenol, beta-caryophyllene

Parfume-Creation

Hay odour, mildly of tobacco. Sweet red pepper note, cooked, browned, mildly fried, lightly of cooked tomato. A piquant to fiery flavour.

Description olfactive

Heart-head note. Woody odour; dry, spicy, aromatic.