Juniper berry(Juniperus communis) essential oil/Bosnia organic

Olfactory Properties of Juniper berry(Juniperus communis) essential oil/Bosnia organic

The clear mobile liquid distilled from juniper berries of Bosnia displays a strong, clean, punguent coniferous bouquet with delightful sweet, spicy balsamic undertone.
The gentle balsamic sweetness that radiates from the oil as the dry out continues is a true aromatic treasure. Every oil has concealed within itself some unique qualities that only time and patience reveals. If a person simply smells an oil for a few seconds and then sets it aside they cannot possibly appreciate and understand the richness and beauty contained therein.

Blends well wth agarwood eo and co2; ambrette seed eo, co2 and abs; amyris eo; aromoise eo; bay leaf eo and abs; benzoin abs; bergamot eo; blood orange eo; bois de rose eo; calamus eo and co2; camphor eo; cananga eo; caraway eo and co2; carrot seed eo, co2 and abs; cassia bark eo and co2; cassie abs; cedarleaf eo; cedarwood eo's and abs; chamomile eo' and co2's; cistus eo and abs; clary sage eo and abs; copaiba balsam eo; coriander eo and co2; elemi eo and abs; cypress eo and abs; fir balsam abs; fir eo's; frankincense eo, co2 and abs; galangal root eo and co2; galbanum eo, co2 and abs; gurjun balsam eo; guaicawood eo; hemlock, blue spruce eo and abs; ho leaf eo; labdanum abs and eo; laurel leaf eo and abs; lavindin eo and abs; lavender eo, co2 and abs; mastic eo and abs; mimosa abs; muhuhu eo; myrrh eo, co2 and abs; nutmeg eo, co2 and abs; lovage root eo and co2; oakmoss abs; orange eo; patchouli eo, co2 and abs; pepper black eo and co2; peru balsam eo; petitgrain eo's; pine needle eo's and abs; rosemary eo, co2 and abs; sage eo and co2; sandalwood eo, co2 and abs; spruce eo and abs; tonka bean abs; valerian eo and co2; vanilla abs and co2; vetiver eo, co2 and abs

In natural perfumery used in incense perfumes; sacred perfumes; amber bases; forest accors; fougere; chypre; Oriental bases; spicy colognes

Juniper berry/Juniperus communis in Literature
We had walked fast. It was very hot. He took off his coat, rolled it into a pillow, and placed it beneath his head as he lay down on the grass. I stretched myself prone on a velvety carpet of moss, and gave myself up to a profound investigation of the one square foot of ground which lay beneath my eyes. The number of blades of grass was prodigious. A few, already awned, stood above their fellows, waving like palms- meadowgrass, fescue, foxtail, brome-grass—each slender stalk crowned with a tuft. Others were budding, only half unfolded, amid the darker mass of spongy moss which gave them sustenance. Amid the numberless shafts thus raised toward heaven a thousand paths crisscrossed, each full of obstacles-chips of bark, juniper-berries, beech-nuts, tangled roots, hills raised by burrowing insects, ravines formed by the draining off of the rains. Ants and beetles bustled along them, pressing up hill and down to some mysterious goal. Above them a cunning red spider was tying a blade of grass to an orchid leaf, the pillars it had chosen for its future web; and. when the wind shook the leaves and the sun pierced through to this spot, I saw the delicate roof already mapped out.
The Ink-Stain by Rene Bazin

335. To Get Rid of a Bad Smell in a Room Newly Painted.
Place a vessel full of lighted charcoal in the middle of the room, and throw on it two or three handfuls of juniper berries, shut the windows, the chimney, and the door close; twenty-four hours afterwards, the room may be opened, when it will be found that the sickly, unwholesome smell will be entirely gone. The smoke of the juniper berry possesses this advantage, that should anything be left in the room, such as; tapestry, &c., none of it will be spoiled.
Enquire Within Upon Everything, by Anonymous

The air is sweet with aromatic scents: the resin of the pine and juniper, the mayflowers and acacia-blossoms, the violets that spring by thousands in the moss, the wild roses and faint honeysuckles which throw fragrant arms from bough to bough of ash or maple, join to make one most delicious perfume.
SKETCHES AND STUDIES IN ITALY AND GREECE BY
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS

A thin coating of frost crackled on his bed when he awakened; and out from under the shelter of the cedar all the ground was hoar-white. As he slipped from his blankets the same strong smell of black sage and juniper smote him, almost like a blow. His nostrils seemed glued together by some rich piny pitch; and when he opened his lips to breathe a sudden pain, as of a knife-thrust, pierced his lungs. The thought following was as sharp as the pain.
The Heritage of the Desert, by Zane Grey

It was hard walking in the nullah. In and out of great crevices the
road wound itself, on the brink of stupendous waterfalls, or in the
heart of a brushwood tangle. Soon a clear vault of sky replaced the
out-jutting crags, and he came out on a little plateau where a very cold
wind was blowing. The smell of snow was in the air, a raw smell like
salt when carried on a north wind over miles of granite crags. But on
the little tableland the moon was shining clearly. It was green with
small cloud-berries and dwarf juniper, and the rooty fragrance was for
all the world like an English bolt or a Highland pasture. Lewis flung
himself prone and buried his face among the small green leaves. Then,
still on the ground, he scanned the endless yellow distance. Mountains,
serrated and cleft as in some giant's play, rose on every hand, while
through the hollows gleamed the farther snow-peaks. This little bare
plateau must be naked to any eye on any hill-side, and at the thought he
got to his feet and advanced.
The Half-Hearted, by John Buchan

We crossed the marsh to the edge of the lake by a rude paved way of
decaying logs, through which we often plunged up to our knees.
The Lama had come provided with a piece of bark, shaped like a boat,
some juniper incense and a match-box, with which he made a fire, and
put it in the boat, which he then launched on the lake as a votive
offering to the presiding deity.
Himalayan Journals, V1, by J. D. Hooker

Perplexed by the position of the two glasses we went on deck, and cast our eyes to the clear blue firmament, and rested them, ungratified, on the sharply-marked summits of the mountains. It was now about half-past ten o'clock, the evening being unusually calm, and its breath sweet with the smell of flowers, and aroma of the juniper and fir. The sky was without a stain, except in the west, and there clouds of a dark crimson tinge clustered, [Pg 401]motionlessly, about twenty degrees above the horizon, and extending from the S.W. to the N.W., looked like a narrow zone of red-hot iron; but their splendid colour was lessened by being seen through blacker vapours, that thrown, as a veil of crape, over them, intercepted our vision.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and
Sweden, by W. A. Ross

Nor must we forget that the floor of the main hall, and the floors of all the rooms, both upstairs and down, are strewn with little twigs of birch, pine, and juniper, whose leaves fill the house with their healthful and exhilarating odor.
Ticket No. "9672", by Jules Verne


Links to Juniper/Juniperus communis
Wikipedia article on Juniper
Juniperus communis monograph
Plants for a Future
Ethnobotanical Database for Native American uses
Medicinal and other uses of North American plants: By Charlotte Erichsen-Brown
Medicinal plants in folk tradition: an ethnobotany of Britain & Ireland By David Elliston
Encyclopedia of food and color additives By George A. Burdock
Aromatherapy science: a guide for healthcare professionals By Maria Lis-Balchin