Essential Oils

The leaves, stems, and flowers are harvested and steam-distilled either as fresh or dried material to obtain a light yellow to greenish yellow oil. The colour of the oil turns amber with age. The oil has a sweet, herblike, woody, pungent

Marjoram is a tender, herbaceous, perennial that grows into a bush with upright spreading stems. It may reach a height of about 50 cm. The stems are square and hairy. It has small, soft, oval, pubescent leaves. It bears tiny, white to pink, tube-shaped flowers in whorls.

MARJORAM (Origanum majorana)