Dill Weed Essential Oil CAS 8006-75-5

Dill Weed Oil is an almost colorless or pale yellow mobile liquid with a powerful and fresh, sweet-spicy, peppery and aromatic odor, reminiscent of elemi oil, spearmint oil, citrus oils, etc. with a sweet, nutmeg-like undertone. The taste is warm and slightly burning, but pleasant and not pungent although very peppery and spicy, with a faint anisic undertone.
Arctander, Steffen . Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin
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Dill (Anethum graveolens) is an annual herb in the celery family Apiaceae. It is the only species in the genus Anethum. Dill is widely grown in Eurasia where its leaves and seeds are used as a herb or spice for flavouring food.

Dill weed oil is extracted by steam distillation from the whole herb, fresh or partly dried.

CAS

8006-75-5
FEMA

2383
Binomial Name

Anethum graveolens
Appearance

Brown to brownish orange liquid.
Odour description

at 10.00 % in dipropylene glycol. herbal green spicy caraway
Luebke, William tgsc, (1989)
Taste description

at 2.00 ppm. Dill, minty, woody, vegetative, camphoreous, herbal
Mosciano, Gerard P&F 23, No. 6, 57, (1998)