The scent of Hinoki cypress is familiar with Japanese. You can feel the smell everywhere in Japan, like the Hinoki cypress bath and shrine landscape. The aroma makes you refreshed and healed because the essential oils extracted from the branches and leaves are very bracing.
In Nakatsugawa City, located in the Tono region of Gifu Prefecture, the largest production area of KISO Hinoki cypress, the Maruyama Group has been dealing with Kiso Hinoki cypress for more than 100 years since it was founded in 1916. From a long time ago, Hinoki cypress has been used at the traditional Japanese architectures, though the branches and leaves were shaken off while transporting. We have felt those shaken branches and leaves would be forgotten in the forest.
The branches and leaves of the Hinoki cypress are abundant in monoterpenes and D-limonene, which have a relaxing effect, γ-terpinene, bornyl acetate for a gentle sleeping, and α-cascenall, which is expected for its bactericidal effect.
