Product Overview
Our Angelica Root CO2 has a rich earthy, green herbaceous aroma with peppery top notes and clean spicy, musky/woody back notes. Although it has a very fine, delicate aroma, it is extremely tenacious – a little goes a long way. Angelica Root is noted for its remarkable depth, persistence and diffusiveness and for one of its important constituents – cyclopentadecanolide, a musk-like lactone[1], making it highly valued for use in natural perfumery.
Angelica Root is a lesser known member of the Apiaceae family that includes many other essential oil bearing plants including Anise, Carrot, Celery, Coriander, Cumin and Fennel. The aromatic root played an important part in the history of alcohol and it is used in the production of many spirits today, among them, Absinthe, Bénédictine, and Chartreuse.
The rhizome and roots of Angelica archangelica contain volatile oil, mono and sesquiterpenes, and a number of coumarins including angelicin and bergapten. Please be aware that Angelica Root is highly phototoxic – it should not be used topically before sun exposure.
1 Wells, F. V. and Marcel Billot. Perfumery Technology - Art: Science: Industry, 2nd ed., 1981, p. 66.
2 Rhind, Jennifer Peace. Fragrance and Wellbeing, 2014, p. 210, citing Johar, A.J. (ed.) Poucher’s Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps. Volume 1: The Raw Materials of Perfumery, 9th ed., 1991, London, Chapman and Hall.
3 Arctander, Steffen. Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, 1960, p. 63.
4 Tisserand, Robert and Rodney Young. Essential Oil Safety, 2nd ed., 2014, p. 194.
