Cardamom oil is a free-flowing liquid that is colourless to pale yellow in colour. It has a sweet, spicy, warming note, with a woody, balsamicbase note. The major components of the product are 1,8-Cineol and Terpinylacetate. Cardamom oil is mainly used in flavour and medicinal applications.
Cardamom oil is popularlyused for its aroma in mouth fresheners,perfumery, chewing gums, soaps, and cosmetics. Due to the presence of 1,8-cineole in Cardamom oil, it isvery effective in treating respiratory and muscular spasms, and gives relieffrom muscle pulls, cramps, whooping cough, and asthma.