Cypress, Blue

A blue oil drawn from wood rather than flowers: Australian blue cypress, distilled from bark and wood, rich, resinous, smoky and honey-like, and grounding enough to anchor a perfume.

At a glance Botanical name: Callitris intratropica Origin: northern Australia, plantation grown without chemicals Method: distilled from bark and wood Blends well with: most citrus oils and most florals

Some woods smell of smoke and honey and late light. Blue cypress is one of them: rich, resinous, woody, smoky, honey-like and grounding, in the words of Mark Webb's Bush Sense.