Spearmint Essential Oil
Spearmint Essential Oil is a sweet, minty, and slightly fruity aroma with a softer, gentler profile compared to peppermint. Known for its refreshing and uplifting properties, it’s perfect for promoting mental clarity, reducing stress, and soothing digestion. Ideal for candles, diffusers, soaps, and personal care products, this oil adds a cool, invigorating touch to your creations. Blends beautifully with citrus oils, lavender, and rosemary for a fresh, herbal scent that revitalizes the senses.
Ambiance: Fresh / Sweet / Green / Uplifting
Please note
This is a pure, undiluted essential oil designed for crafting end products such as candles, diffusers, soaps, bath products, and other personal care items. Essential oils are highly concentrated and should not be applied directly to the skin without proper dilution in a carrier oil. All our essential oils are measured in grams, not milliliters. Bottle fill levels may vary due to differences in oil density, which affects volume.
For specific usage limits, please refer to the Spearmint Essential Oil IFRA guidelines or consult the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) included in the “Related Documents” tab. Compliance of the final product remains the responsibility of the manufacturer.
Packaging note: 10g testers are supplied in PET bottles for affordable evaluation and are not intended for long-term archival storage. Production sizes from 50g upwards are supplied in premium aluminium bottles for improved long-term protection. Read more
Olfactive Profile
- Note classification: Top to middle note
- Scent family: Minty / Green / Herbal / Fresh
Spearmint Essential Oil has a fresh, sweet, and green mint profile with soft herbal, leafy, slightly fruity, and cooling nuances. It feels gentler and sweeter than peppermint, less sharp than wild mint, and more rounded than eucalyptus. Its character is clean, bright, and approachable, making it especially useful in spa, wellness, herbal, fresh-air, clean home, and cheerful botanical compositions.
The opening is fresh, green, and softly cooling, while the drydown becomes smoother, sweeter, and more herbal. Compared to stronger mint oils, spearmint brings a more rounded freshness with less intensity, making it valuable when a formula needs a clean mint effect that feels soft, natural, and easy to blend.
Technical Data & IFRA limits
- Product type: 100% pure essential oil
- Botanical name: Mentha Spicata
- CAS number: 8008-79-5
- EC number: 283-656-2
- Plant part: Herb
- Extraction method: Steam Distillation
- Flashpoint: >61°C
- Density: 0.929–0.969 g/cm³ at 20°C
- Main natural constituents: Typically rich in carvone-type minty-green aromatic constituents, with naturally occurring limonene, linalool, eugenol, and related fresh herbal materials. Exact composition may vary by batch.
IFRA Maximum Usage Levels
- Candles: 19.32%
- Diffusers: 0.20%
- Perfumes: 0.67%
- Soaps: 0.20%
For full category-specific limits, refer to the Spearmint Essential Oil IFRA certificate available in the “Related Documents” tab.
Formulation & Creative Uses
Spearmint Essential Oil works as a soft green mint top-to-middle note. It adds freshness, sweetness, lift, and a clean herbal brightness to a formula, helping citrus, floral, woody, herbal, musky, or resinous compositions feel more open and refreshing. It is especially useful when a blend needs minty freshness without the aggressive cooling intensity of peppermint.
Common applications
- Diffusers: Useful for fresh, cheerful, green, herbal, spa-like, clean-air, and uplifting blends, always within IFRA limits.
- Candles & wax melts: Adds soft minty freshness, especially in spa, herbal, clean home, garden, citrus-mint, and fresh botanical compositions.
- Soaps: Brings a clean sweet-mint character, with testing required for scent retention and process stability.
- Bath & body products: Suitable when used within IFRA limits and proper dilution guidelines.
- Perfumery: Useful in green mint accords, herbal colognes, citrus-mint blends, clean musks, fresh fougere structures, tea-inspired compositions, and soft botanical freshness effects.
Creative directions
Use Spearmint Essential Oil when a formula needs freshness, sweetness, and a clean green mint lift. It works especially well in blends that feel too heavy, warm, dull, woody, resinous, or overly serious, helping the composition become lighter, brighter, and more approachable.
For fresh diffuser and home fragrance blends, combine spearmint with lemon, lime, eucalyptus, rosemary, lavender, or basil to create a crisp botanical freshness. For softer spa directions, use it with lavender, clary sage, cedarwood, amyris, or soft musks to give the formula a clean and calming mint-herbal character. For citrus-mint compositions, pair it with bergamot, grapefruit, orange, mandarine, or litsea cubeba to build a bright, cheerful opening.
Spearmint is also useful in herbal tea accords, garden-inspired blends, clean linen directions, soft fougere structures, summer freshness themes, and gentle botanical compositions. Because it is recognisably minty but softer than peppermint, it can still dominate delicate formulas if used too heavily. It performs best when balanced with citrus oils, soft herbs, woods, musks, or light floral materials that round out its sweet green freshness.
Storage & Natural Variations
Spearmint Essential Oil is classified as irritating to the skin, sensitising, hazardous if swallowed and enters the airways, and toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects. Always follow the IFRA guidance and SDS for the intended product category. The final safety assessment, dilution level, labeling, and regulatory compliance remain the responsibility of the manufacturer.
Essential oils are natural aromatic materials, and slight variations in scent, colour, density, and appearance may occur from batch to batch. These differences are normal and can be influenced by harvest conditions, climate, origin, plant material, and natural compositional variation.
Scent perception may also vary depending on individual sensitivity, dilution level, formulation base, and application method. Essential oils may not smell exactly the same in the bottle as they do in a finished product. We strongly recommend testing a 10g bottle before committing to larger quantities, especially for commercial production.
To preserve quality, store tightly sealed in the original container, away from heat, light, air, and moisture. Store in a cool, dry, well-ventilated place and avoid release into drains, surface water, or the environment.
Order processing times
Standard lead time is 1-2 business days. Processing times may be longer during peak holiday seasons—please plan accordingly.
Bulk Orders
For larger quantities, we offer bulk production starting from 5kg per fragrance code, with a 10% discount per kilogram. Customers who need more than 5kgs per scent, can contact us to arrange a proforma invoice. Bulk orders are produced in multipliers of 5 (5kg, 10kg, 15kg, etc.) and lead times vary depending on fragrance and time of the year, usually within the range of 3 to 8 weeks.
Product Suitability Guide
Comparison of typical formulation levels with the maximum permitted use for each application based on IFRA 51st amdt.
| Application | Typical Use | Suitability |
|---|---|---|
Candles & Wax Melts
|
7–12% | Suitable |
Electric Diffusers
|
Up to 100%* | Suitable* |
Pillow Mists
|
1–5% | Below Range |
Room Sprays
|
2–5% | Below Range |
Reed Diffusers
|
15–25% | Below Range |
Soaps & Rinse-off
|
1–3% | Below Range |
Hair Fragrance
|
1–3% | Below Range |
Lotions & Body Oils
|
0.5–2% | Below Range |
Fine Fragrance
|
10–15% | Below Range |
Facial Makeup
|
0.1–1% | Limited |
Body Mist & Deodorant
|
1–5% | Below Range |
How to Read the Suitability Statements
✓ Suitable: the permitted concentration reaches or exceeds the average typical-use range. △ Limited: the permitted concentration falls within the typical-use range but remains below its midpoint. × Below Range: the permitted concentration falls below the typical-use range. × Not Permitted: the applicable limit is 0%.
Please Note
Typical-use ranges are general formulation benchmarks, not product-specific recommendations. Suitability is determined by comparing the stated typical-use range with the maximum permitted concentration shown in the current supplier IFRA document.
This guide does not confirm scent performance, base compatibility, stability, device compatibility or complete finished-product compliance. Appropriate testing and all applicable safety, labelling and regulatory requirements remain the responsibility of the finished-product manufacturer.
*Electric diffusers: Up to 100% fragrance may be used only in equipment designed for undiluted fragrance oil. Dilution, carrier and compatibility requirements vary by device. Always follow the equipment manufacturer’s instructions.
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