Nutmeg Essential Oil is Extracts of Myristica fragrans. Nutmeg is the seed or ground spice of several species of the genus Myristica. Myristica fragrans (fragrant nutmeg or true nutmeg) is a dark-leaved evergreen tree cultivated for two spices derived from its fruit: nutmeg, from its seed, and mace, from the seed covering. It is also a commercial source of an essential oil and nutmeg butter. The tree is native to the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, of Indonesia and is principally cultivated there and in the West Indies. The essential oil is obtained by extracting its dried seed through the process of steam distillation technology method. It has a transparent color where smell and taste of nutmeg, consists of various components namely a-pinene, camphene, b-pinene, sabinene, myrcene, a-phellandrene, a-terpinene, limonene, 1,8-cineole, y-terpinene, linalool, terpinen-4-ol, methyl eugenol and myristicin. Presence of such chemicals makes Nutmeg essential oil best for medicinal and culinary uses.