| Calamus oil, Nepal | |
| Essential Oils | |
| Acorus calamus L., fam. Araceae | |
| Root | |
| Nepal | |
| AcoCal2 |
Calamus oil, Nepal
-has a sweet lasting odor, warm, woody-spicy with increasingly sweet body-notes. Some experts compare the scent to dried milk or sweet leather. Novices have described the odor as similar to a shoe repair shop or milk truck.
The main constituent is a phenolether, Asarone, which is odorless and tasteless.
The Acorus Calamus is a perennial plant known in the lower 48 as "Sweet Flag," "Sweet Root," "Sweet Myrtle," and "Sweet Cinnamon."
