Roman chamomile oil for hair: what it is, what it does, how we blend it

Roman chamomile oil is the apple-sweet one: a soft, fruity-herbal flower oil built on angelate esters, gentle enough to lead a quiet lengths oil at well under a percent.

Role	Essential oil, floral family
On the label	Anthemis Nobilis Flower Oil
In our blends	Not in a signature blend yet
Builder limit	Up to 1% of a hair blend (all essential oils together: 1%)

What it is

Steam-distilled from the small daisy-like flowers of Anthemis nobilis (Chamaemelum nobile), the oil is mostly esters of angelic and tiglic acids, isobutyl angelate chief among them, which give a sweet, apple-like, slightly herbal scent. It is pale blue when fresh, turning yellow, thin and volatile. German chamomile is a different plant with a different, deeper blue oil.

How it feels on hair

At up to 1% it gives a soft, sweet, apple-and-hay scent that reads as calm. The blend's weight and finish are unchanged.

Who reaches for it

People who find lavender too sharp and florals too sweet, and anyone making an oil for the evening or for a child's lengths (with the usual patch test). It is not in a signature blend yet.

Where it sits in our blends

No signature blend uses roman chamomile yet, which makes it one for the builder: start from a blend that is close and swap it in, or build from scratch. Every blend is weighed to the gram and the recipe is printed on the label.

How to compose with it

Essential oils share at most 1% of a hair blend; the builder allows Roman chamomile up to 1%. Pair it with lavender, clary sage or sweet orange over apricot kernel, jojoba or sweet almond with baobab.

Compose with roman chamomile Find your formula

Weighed to the gram and blended to order in New Jersey, with the recipe printed on the label. For external use only; patch test before first use. Every oil, with its INCI name, is in the oil library.