Albahaka is Bulusan's fragrant basil

Albahaka is Bulusan's native basil more popular locally as a fragrant bath herb. It has a close resemblance to the photo of a Greek basil in 'The complete herb book' I'm using as guide.

Albahaka is a local basil and a relative of the culinary sweet basil for the pesto recipe. In fact the leaves look like tiny replicas of it. This one however has a different use for Bulusanons. It is use as 'dak'dak', a fragrance herbal bath antedating the trendy spa of today.

It has the smallest of leaves among the basils I've planted: Thai basil, Greek Basil, Sweet Basil and the local cinnamon basil (kologon-kogon). It is easy to grow being a native plant.

Albahaka is the most fragrant among basils as I have found out and thus best use as a natural fragrance.

Bring around two or three sprigs in your bath and crushed the leaves in a pail of water for the final rinse.
The fragrance of the leaves will not only give fragrance to your body but to the bathroom as well.