Nutmeg Essential Oil
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Description
Nutmeg Essential Oil has a warm spicy aroma with sweet nutmeg, pale wood, dry spice dust, and faint aromatic bitterness. It is close to the kitchen spice, but more concentrated and more diffusive, so it needs less room than customers may expect.
The first impression is warm, sweet, and familiar. Once the first lift recedes, the scent becomes drier and woodier, leaving a nutmeg-dust trace that works well in soaps, body oils, massage blends, natural perfumes, spice accords, amber blends, diffusers, and formulas with orange, mandarin, ginger, cardamom, clove, cedarwood, patchouli, vanilla, or resins.
Nutmeg works best in small amounts. Used lightly, it gives soft spice warmth and body. Used heavily, it can become bitter, stale, dusty, or too culinary.
Essential oils can be applied topically once diluted with a carrier oil. They are widely used in cosmetic goods and handmade crafts.
Details
| Botanical Name | Myristica fragrans |
| Origin | India |
| Family | Myristicaceae |
| Plant Part | Seeds |
| Extraction | Steam Distillation |
| Note | Middle |
| Colour | Clear Pale Yellow |
| Consistency | Thin |
| Scent | Rich, spicy, sweet, woody. It is similar to the cooking spice, but richer and more fragrant. |
| Blends With | Citrus, floral, spicy and woodsy oils. |
| Group | Spicy |
Cautions
Never use pure oils on the skin without diluting, never use internally, keep away from children and eyes, always check if there are any medical issues which could cause a problem. Seek help if you have any doubts.
