Carrot Seed Materia Medica

Carrots, being biennial, do not produce flowers the first year, but clusters of tiny white flowers appear in the
second and final year of the plant’s life-cycle. Carrot seed oil, a yellow to amber colored, mobile liquid with a warm, subtly sweet, familiar carrot scent, is steam distilled from the dried seeds (although the whole of the plant can yield an essential oil; an oil that is solvent-extracted from the root of the edible carrot is also manufactured) of either wild or cultivated carrots. The major biochemical components of carrot seed oil include: carotol, asarone, bisabolene, camphene, limonene, a-pinene, b-pinene, sabinene, myrcene, y-terpinene and geranyl acetate.

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