Savory Winter Essential Oil
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Description
Savory Winter Essential Oil has a hot herbaceous aroma with peppery leaf, phenolic spice, bitter warmth, and a sharp medicinal edge. It does not behave like a gentle culinary herb. The essential oil is much stronger, drier, and more forceful, with an oregano-thyme-like bite that arrives quickly.
The first impression is hot and green-spiced, then the scent settles into bitter herb and dry medicinal warmth. This makes Winter Savory useful only in very careful low-dose work for soaps, cleansing-style blends, herbal accords, foot products, experimental perfumery, and blends with thyme, oregano, rosemary, marjoram, basil, lemon, tea tree, eucalyptus, or cedarwood.
Winter Savory needs serious restraint. Used lightly, it gives hot herbal structure. Used heavily, it can feel harsh, burning, bitter, medicinal, and overwhelming.
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 | Satureja montana |
| Origin | Spain |
| Family | Santalaceae |
| Plant Part | Flowering Herbs |
| Extraction | Steam Distillation |
| Note | Base |
| Colour | Yellow to Orange |
| Consistency | Thin to Medium |
| Scent | Savoury Winter has a sharp, medicinal, herbaceous odour. |
| Blends With | Camphoraceous, citrus, and woodsy oils. |
| Group | Camphoraceous |
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.
