Buchu or Agathosma

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Buchu (Agathosma) leaf oil exudes a piercingly green, minty-camphoraceous aroma laced with vivid sulfurous blackcurrant (cassis) facets and a tonic, herbal fynbos dryness. Nuances of grapefruit zest, pennyroyal, and a slightly catty fruitiness give it a strikingly fresh yet medicinal character. Exceptionally potent, it is used in minute traces to boost cassis and tropical-fruit effects, to edge citrus and gin-like aromatic top notes, and to impart wild-herbal lift in fougère and chypre accords—overuse can skew sharp, medicinal, or animalic.

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