The leaf half of the plant.

Our Oil

Cilantro and coriander come from one plant and smell nothing alike. We distil the young leafy tops, and we never let the two get confused.

Leaf Not the Seed

Cut Young Before It Bolts

Distilled Here Our Own Charge

3 yr Dated From the Still

One Plant, Two Completely Different Oils

Coriandrum sativum produces two oils that share a species and almost nothing else.

Distil the ripe seed and you get something soft, sweet and linalool-led. Distil the young leaf and you get the vivid green pungency that people either adore or cannot abide. Both are correct, and a bottle simply labelled with the Latin name tells you nothing about which one you are getting.

We sell them as separate things because they are separate things. This is the leaf oil, cut young while the aroma is at its greenest, distilled in our own still. If what you actually want is the warm, linalool-led seed oil, that is coriander, and it is a different bottle entirely.

Young cilantro leafy tops growing densely in a field row

Cut Young, Before It Runs To Seed

The plant changes character as it matures. Early on it is all soft, broad, deeply notched leaf; once it bolts, the foliage turns feathery and the aroma shifts toward the seed.

Our crop is grown in the United States, close enough to the still that the cut tops are not sitting in a truck losing their character.

So the harvest window is early and narrow. We take the leafy tops while the plant is still young and the green pungency is at full strength.

It is distilled fresh, because cilantro leaf loses its character faster than almost anything else in a herb garden.

Green Material, Straight In

The still is ours and the charge is ours. Nobody hands us a drum labelled cilantro that might turn out to be a seed distillate.

Fresh leafy tops are packed and steamed until spent, and the oil separates vividly green-smelling with a citrusy, slightly pungent edge that anyone who likes the fresh herb will recognise at once.

Runs are taken to completion rather than to a set duration.

Fresh cilantro leafy tops packed into a still

Confirmed As Leaf Oil

An independent laboratory analyses each batch, and the first job is confirming which half of the plant it came from.

Aldehydes

Decanal and its relatives dominate leaf oil and are largely absent from seed oil. This is the deciding measurement.

Linalool share

High in coriander seed oil, low here. A raised figure would mean seed material in the charge.

Purity

Confirms a single-species leaf distillate at full strength with nothing blended in.

Quote your lot for the analysis, or reach us at the contact page.

📄 Certificate of Analysis

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Dates and Lot

Distillation, bottling and lot reference, so the age of a delicate oil is never guesswork.

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Amber Glass

Amber in every size. Green leaf oils fade quickly in the light.

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Leaf Only

Pure leaf distillate, undiluted, with no coriander seed oil blended through it.

Our Fixed Positions

True of every cilantro batch we fill.

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Young Leaf

Cut before bolting, when the green character is strongest.

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Organic Growers

Bought in bulk direct from farms growing the crop organically.

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Distilled By Us

Fresh tops into our own still, nothing bought ready-made.

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Leaf Confirmed

Independent analysis proving leaf rather than seed origin.

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Kept Separate

Never blended with, or sold as, coriander seed oil.

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Small To Bulk

Every size filled from the same fresh-leaf run.

Straight Talk

We make no medical claims for cilantro oil. It is a bright, unusual aromatic and a useful top note, which is claim enough.

Take it down in a carrier before skin contact and try a small area first. It is pungent in a way that dominates a blend quickly, so start with far less than you expect to need.

The aroma is genuinely divisive, and we would rather you buy the smallest size first than a large bottle you dislike. If a crop cannot be cut young enough to give proper leaf oil, we wait for the next one.

Try the Leaf Before the Seed

Young organic leafy tops, cut before bolting, distilled in our own still, and confirmed as leaf oil rather than seed by an independent laboratory.

Start with the smallest bottle.

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