Piper Cubeba Oil is prdUced by steam distilled from the seeds of Cubeb. Cubeb is native to Indonesia. The oil is yellowish green in color and has a strong, pungent and camphorous odor. It is used in flavors, pharmaceuticals and aromatherapy.
Cubeb pepper ( also known as tailed pepper or Java pepper) , Piper cubeba, is a member of the genus Piper that also includes black pepper, long pepper, kava, Japanese pepper and Mexican pepper.
The odour of cubebs is described as agreeable and aromatic, if slightly woody in nature, and its taste is generally described as pungent, acrid, slightly bitter and persistent. Indeed, like so many other spices it' s the bitter overtones of cubeb pepper that meant it never truly became a competitor for black pepper. Chemically, the pungency of cubeb peppers is chiefly caused by the lignane cubebin, which makes it different in character to black pepper. The chief aromatic components of the essential oil are monoterpenes ( sabinene 50% , carene, ± -thujene, 1, 4-cineol and 1, 8-cineol) and sesquiterpenes ( copaene, ± - and ² -cubebene, ´ -cadinene, caryophyllene, germacrene, cubebol) .