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Thyme Herb Absolute
Thymus vulgaris
Thyme by solvent: the dried herb’s sweetness, with the heat turned down.
- Place in the wear
- Base
- What remains. Woods, resins, roots, musks.
- Office
- Blender
- A quiet mass that lets the others sit together.
- Family
- Aromatic
- Type
- Absolute
- Origin
- France and Spain, from dried herb
- Span
- Long. Sweet herb and hay, with a warm phenolic hum.
- Odor
- Sweet dried herb, hay, a soft warm phenol, green
- Also called
- Thymus vulgaris absolute, Thyme absolute
- Also CAS
- 8007-46-3
- Botanical family
- Lamiaceae
- Plant part
- Flowering tops
- Process
- Solvent extraction of the dried herb, then ethanol
Thyme absolute is extracted from the dried herb rather than distilled, so it brings the heavier, sweet hay and green notes with only a soft phenolic warmth. It smells like the dried herb in a jar more than like the oil.
It gives depth to herbal fougères and to tobacco and hay accords, where it joins lavender absolute and tonka.
Sources
- Fairamour editorial (original)
- PubChem substance SID 439396711 (+28 more)
- PubChem records for CAS 8007-46-3
- GBIF: Thymus vulgaris L.
- Arctander, Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin (1960)
- PubChem records for CAS 8007-46-3