Cardamom Oil 5mL
The scent of cardamom oil promotes clarity, motivation, focus, courage and confidence.
Cardamom helps to restore our ‘appetite for life’ while also giving us wisdom and encouragement when we feel overburdened with responsibilities.
Botanical Name
Elettaria cardamomum
Family
Zingiberaceae
Method of extraction
Cardamom oil is produced by the steam distillation of the seeds of Elettaria cardamomum. The seeds are enclosed in husks and should not be removed from the almost odourless hulls until prior to distillation.3
Characteristics
Cardamom oil is an almost colourless or pale-yellow liquid, which darkens when exposed to sunlight. The odour of cardamom is warm-spicy with a slightly penetrating camphoraceous-cineole-like odour. It becomes balsamic-woody with a sweet and almost floral dryout.3
Chemical composition
The chemical composition of cardamom oil is reported as follows:
a-pinene (1.5%), b-pinene (0.2%), sabinene (2.8%), myrcene (1.6%), a-phellandrene (0.2%), limonene (11.6%), 1,8-cineole (36.3%), g-terpinolene (0.5%), linalool (3.0%), linalyl acetate (2.5%), terpinen-4-ol (0.9%), a-terpineol (2.6%), a-terpinyl acetate (31.3%), citronellol (0.3%), nerol (0.5%), geraniol (0.5%), methyl eugenol (0.2%), and trans-nerolidol (2.7%).4
