Parsley Essential Oil, Organic, Egypt

Parsley

Petroselinum satvium

Cultivated and steam distilled from the leaves of organically grown herbs, in Egypt. 

The scent is interesting--green and earthy. I always think of parsley essential oil as an emergency supply in my kitchen. If I’m out of parsley herb, and I need it right this second, I’ll do a drop in a spoon of olive oil…..one drop only. And this will often save my dish.

Arctander says

Parsley herb oil is a pale yellow or greenish yellow liquid of a peculiar, warm-spicy, heavy-leafy, yet fresh herb-like odor. It smells, unsurprisingly, like the fresh herb. The flavor is bitter, warm, slightly burning…….but again, you can use in a parsley emergency.

At the time of publishing (1960), parsley was not used much in perfumery. But I di imagine this has changed as tastes evolve and new perfume ingredients come into the fore.

Battaglia

He writes about parsley seed, an entirely different oil than the leaf. If you have it in your head that you want to incorporate parsley leaf essential oil into your aromatherapy practice, you will find more information elsewhere.

Scarborough Fair

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt

(On the side of a hill in the deep forest green)
Parsely, sage, rosemary & thyme
(Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground)
Without no seams nor needlework
(Blankets and bedclothes a child of the mountains)
Then she'll be a true love of mine
(Sleeps unaware of the clarion call)
Tell her to find me an acre of land

(On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves)
Parsely, sage, rosemary, & thyme


(Washed is the ground with so many tears)
Between the salt water and the sea strand
(A soldier cleans and polishes a gun)
Then she'll be a true love of mine

Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather

(War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions)
Parsely, sage, rosemary & thyme
(Generals order their soldiers to kill)
And to gather it all in a bunch of heather
(And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten)
Then she'll be a true love of mine

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine.

--Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel