Patchouli a perfume ingredient:

 Patchouli a perfume ingredient:

• Patchouli oil, with its recognizable musky, sweet, spicy aroma, is used widely as a base note and fixative ingredient in modern perfumery. In fact, you might be surprised to learn that some of the well-known and much-loved fragrances of today contain patchouli as a base note.

• The patchouli plant is native to tropical Southeast Asian countries but is widely cultivated all over the tropics and subtropics including various Indonesian Islands, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, China, and South America.

• Patchouli oil has a strong, slightly sweet, intoxicating scent. It's described as having a dark, musky-earthy aroma profile, reminiscent of wet soil.

• Traditionally, patchouli has been used often as a medicinal ingredient to treat skin inflammations and scars, headaches, colic, muscle spasms, bacterial and viral infections, anxiety, and depression. The Chinese, Japanese and Arabs believe it to possess aphrodisiac properties.

• Patchouli is used widely as a fragrance ingredient in modern scented industrial products, including as paper towels, laundry detergents, and air fresheners.