Tarragon Essential Oil
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Description
Tarragon Essential Oil has a sweet green aroma with anise-like lift, peppery herb, dry leaf, and faint bitterness. It does not behave like a soft leafy herb. Tarragon is concentrated, aromatic, and quickly recognisable, with a liquorice-green character that can pull a blend toward kitchen-herb territory.
The first impression is sweet and spicy-green. With time, the scent becomes drier and more bitter, leaving a tarragon-leaf trace that can work in careful low-dose use for herbal perfumes, savoury accords, speciality soaps, spice-herb blends, and experimental natural perfumery.
Tarragon needs restraint because of both scent strength and safety considerations linked to estragole-rich materials. Used lightly, it gives green anise structure. Used heavily, it can become medicinal, syrupy, bitter, or too food-like.
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 | Artemisia Dracunculus |
| Origin | Turkey |
| Family | Asteraceae |
| Plant Part | Leaves |
| Extraction | Steam Distillation |
| Note | Middle |
| Colour | Pale to light yellow |
| Consistency | Thin |
| Scent | Tarragon has a richly sweet, anise-like (black licorice), green scent with spicy tones. |
| 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.
