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The oil comes from the seeds of Daucus carota, the wild carrot, which is also called Queen Anne's lace in North America. The cultivated carrot derives from the wild carrot, and both are the same species. Daucus carota is a herbaceous biennial plant of the family Apiaceae, native to temperate regions of Afro-Eurasia. The cultivated carrot is the domesticated subspecies Daucus carota subsp. sativus.

Rather than the extract, the distilled oil is used in perfumery and food aromatization. Carotol, an oxygenated sesquiterpene, is the major component of carrot seed oil, both in a commercial oil and in one distilled from seeds grown in polluted soil.

In a hydrodistilled oil from seeds grown in trace-element-polluted soil, carotol was the major component and sabinene, a monoterpene hydrocarbon, made up 26.08%. Over 30 compounds were identified in that oil. A commercial oil from non-polluted soils had carotol as its major component, at 38.23%. Purified carotol alone showed strong antifungal activity against several plant pathogens.