There's a particular kind of clarity that comes only in the early morning — when the air is still cool, the city hasn't quite woken up, and your mind feels, just for a moment, completely uncluttered. That sensation. That specific, fleeting sharpness. That's what a single drop of peppermint can hold.
Not the candy-sweet version. Not the synthetic chill of a convenience store balm. This is something rawer, greener, more honest — the real leaf, pressed and captured at its peak, still carrying the bite of the field it came from.
Peppermint — Đơn Hương
The Đơn Hương series is NOTE's way of going back to the source. One ingredient. No blending, no layering, no complexity added for its own sake. Just the purest expression of a single botanical — so you can understand it fully before you use it in anything else.
This peppermint essential oil is cold-pressed from the leaves of Mentha piperita L. — a plant that has been grown and used across Vietnam for generations, in everything from roadside herbal teas to grandmother's remedies for a heavy head. The menthol that gives it that signature cooling rush isn't manufactured. It's just there, the way it's always been, waiting to be released.
Open the bottle. That first exhale of cool, clean green — sharp enough to make you blink, then immediately clarifying — is the whole point. Add 3–5 drops to a diffuser and let it move through the room. The air changes. Your shoulders drop a little. Your thoughts, scattered a moment before, find their edges again.
That stays.
For those who work with their hands — or their minds — peppermint is one of those rare constants. Diluted with a carrier oil at a 1:10 ratio, it becomes something you can bring closer: a slow massage into tired shoulders, a moment of intention before a long afternoon. The menthol does what it has always done. Calm the noise. Ease the tension. Let you breathe.
Each 10ml bottle is dark glass — because peppermint, like all true essentials, is sensitive to light. Small enough to travel with. Significant enough to change the atmosphere of a room.
Ingredient: Peppermint (Mentha piperita L.)
Vibe: Cooling · Clarifying · Energizing
Volume: 10ml · Dark glass bottle · Made in Vietnam
How to use:
Diffusion — 3 to 5 drops in a diffuser.
Massage — dilute with carrier oil at a 1:10 ratio before applying to skin.
Cautions: Not for food or drink. Avoid direct contact with undiluted oil on skin. Store in a cool, dry place away from direct light. Keep out of reach of children.
The Đơn Hương line exists because NOTE believes that knowing a single ingredient — truly knowing it — is where everything begins. Before the blends, before the layers, before the finished perfume. Just the plant. Just the truth of it.
Whether you're building your own home ritual, exploring Vietnamese botanicals for the first time, or looking for something small and considered to bring back from your time here — a bottle this honest is hard to find anywhere else. It doesn't need to be anything more than what it is. And what it is, is enough.
Find it at our stores in Thảo Điền (34 Nguyễn Duy Hiệu), Nguyễn Huệ (42 Nguyễn Huệ, District 1), and Lotte Mall Westlake, Tây Hồ, Hanoi — or order directly from this page.
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