Carrot seed oil is the essential oil extract of the seed from the carrot plant Daucus carota. The oil has a woody, earthy sweet smell and is yellow or amber-coloured to pale yellow in appearance. The pharmacologically active constituents of carrot seed extract are three flavones: luteolin, luteolin 3′-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside, and luteolin 4′-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside.
Carrot Seed Oil (aromatherapy)
Carrot Seed Oil is a yellow or amber-colored to pale orange-brown liquid of peculiar drywoody, somewhat root-like, earthy odor. The initial notes are sweet and fresh, but the tenacious undertone and dryout is very heavy, weset-earthy, fatty-oily, slightly spicy. The flavor is warm- spicy, slightly biting at high concentration, but sweet and piquant.
Arctander, Steffen . Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin (p. 155).
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