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We don’t carry a product featuring Wild Sagebrush just yet — what follows is its botanical profile, drawn from tradition and the research. Browse all ingredients →
Wild Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) is the silver-green soul of the American high desert — the plant whose sweet, camphorous breath rises over the Great Basin after rain, a scent so beloved it has its own folklore. Despite the name, it is not a true sage (Salvia) but an Artemisia, kin to the wormwoods and to Artemisia annua, the plant Traditional Chinese Medicine kept close for two thousand years before it yielded the antimalarial artemisinin and a Nobel Prize. The peoples of the Great Basin and Plains — Shoshone, Paiute, Navajo, Cheyenne among them — have long treated sagebrush as both medicine chest and sacred smoke: leaves steeped for colds, coughs, and headaches, poultices laid on aching joints, and bundles burned to purify spaces, ceremonies, and spirits. Its oil carries camphor and 1,8-cineole, compounds studied for antimicrobial and clearing properties. Few scents say "wide open country" more honestly.
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