Fragrant plant oil with a spicy-sweet scent, also known as bois de rose. It is extracted from wood chips from a species of evergreen tree. It contains several volatile fragrance chemicals, including camphene, geraniol, neral, geranial, myrcene, limonene, and linalool. Rosewood oil is chiefly used as a fragrance and flavoring ingredient; there is no research pertaining to its benefit for skin, though it does not appear to have toxic properties (Sources: Analytical Chemistry, February 2006, pages 883-890; www.naturaldatabase.com).