40 materials found

Black Pepper Oil

Piper nigrum
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Resinous Spicy Readily Available

Fresh, dry-woody, warm-spicy, reminiscent not only of the odor of dried black pepper, but also of elemi, cubeb and other essential oils of high terpene-sesquiterpene content.

Cabreuva Oil

Myrocarpus fastigiatus
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Woody Irregular / Rare

Sweet-woody, very delicate and slightly floral odor. Its tenacity is one of its greatest virtues. Certain lots may display dry topnotes similar to those found in cubeb oil or in th…

Calamus Oil

Acorus calamus
Essential Oil Balsamic Spicy Sweet Readily Available

Warm, woody-spicy and pleasant odor with increasingly sweet afternotes and great tenacity. Good oils bear some resemblance to dried milk or sweet leather, slightly creamy-nutty. Po…

Cassie Absolute

Acacia farnesiana
Absolute Balsamic Floral Herbaceous Irregular / Rare

Extremely warm, powdery-spicy, at the same time herbaceous and floral with a deep and very tenacious cinnamic-balsamic undertone.

Cistus Oil

Cistus ladanifer
Essential Oil Animalic Balsamic Spicy Limited Quantities

Very powerful and tenacious odor: warm and sweet, yet dry and reminiscent of ambra in its somewhat animal notes.

Civet

Viverra civetta
Animal (crude) Animalic Musky Sweet Readily Available

typically animal-sweet, free from faecal notes, urine notes or the like. The undertone bears some resemblance to that of ambrette seed oil and of a well cured goat skin. The odor o…

Clary Sage Absolute

Salvia sclarea
Absolute Balsamic Herbaceous Sweet Limited Quantities

Extremely rich, delicately sweet, yet bitter-winy and somewhat herbaceous odor of great tenacity. The absolute has a somewhat finer, less resinous odor, more balsamic-sweet than th…

Cyperus Oil

Cyperus scariosus
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Oriental / Heavy Spicy Limited Quantities

Woody-earthy and very tenacious odor. The very first impression bears great resemblance to the Oriental cinnamon-olibanum complex: diffusive, dry, woody, slightly spicy. The overal…

Cypress Absolute

Cupressus sempervirens
Absolute Balsamic Green / Leafy Pine / Coniferous On Order Only

Lighter and more powerful than the concrete. Powerful balsamic-fatty, sweet and pine-like odor.

Cypress Oil

Cupressus sempervirens
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Limited Quantities

Sweet-balsamic, yet refreshing odor, reminiscent of pine needles oil, templin oil, juniper berry oil, cardamom oil (without the cineole-note), and with a unique dryout of delicate …

Elecampane Absolute

Inula helenium
Absolute Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Sweet Irregular / Rare

Very soft, woody-rootlike, slightly fatty-sweet or 'oily', extremely tenacious. Less earthy, more tenacious and rich odor than the essential oil.

Elecampane Oil

Inula helenium
Essential Oil Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Sweet Limited Quantities

Dry-woody in odor, but also sweet, somewhat ambre- or honeylike with a fatty undertone. The odor has some resemblance to those of calamus, costus and cedrela.

Expressed Lime Oil

Citrus aurantiifolia
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Irregular / Rare

Intensely fresh, rich and sweet, peel-like odor, perhaps more lemon-like than the odor of distilled lime oil, but also mellower and somewhat 'perfumery'. The tenacity of the fragra…

Flouve Oil

Anthoxanthum odoratum
Essential Oil Coumarinic / Hay Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Intensely sweet, coumarinic-haylike and heavy herbaceous odor. Has no mossy notes, but has a certain fatty-rootlike undertone reminiscent of elecampane and mimosa. Not floral, but …

Helichrysum Oil

Helichrysum angustifolium
Essential Oil Balsamic Floral Fruity Readily Available

Powerful and diffusive, but pleasant and rich, natural odor. The topnote has certain features in common with those of the extracted material (everlasting absolute), and these topno…

Hyssop Oil

Hyssopus officinalis
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Herbaceous Spicy Limited Quantities

Powerful, somewhat sharp, but sweet-camphoraceous odor, and with a warm-aromatic, spicy undertone.

Juniperberry Oil

Juniperus communis
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Limited Quantities

Fresh, yet warm, rich-balsamic, woody-sweet and pine-needle-like odor.

Juniperberry Oil, terpeneless and sesquiterpeneless

Juniperus communis
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Fruity Limited Quantities

Intensely sweet, balsamic-resinous, yet fresh and somewhat fruity odor.

Juniperberry "Resinoid"

Juniperus communis
Concrète Balsamic Resinous Sweet Irregular / Rare

Beautiful, rich, balsamic-sweet, delightfully ambrelike fragrance, however of surprisingly poor tenacity. May present a topnote of the solvent (benzene or petroleum ether) which ca…

Karna Oil

Citrus species
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Not Commercial

Fresh citrusy, somewhat bitter-leafy odor with a sweet and floral undertone. The odor resembles that of lemon petitgrain oil.

Labdanum Absolute from Concrète

Cistus ladaniferus
Absolute Balsamic Herbaceous Musky Limited Quantities

Deep, sweet-balsamic, faintly but persistently herbaceous with an ambra-like, rich undertone. The latter is characteristic and rarely found in other perfume materials.

Labdanum Absolute from Resinoid

Cistus ladanifer
Absolute Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Resinous Readily Available

Petroleum ether extracts yield absolutes of a 'cistus oil' type of odor, more dry and ambra-like. Absolutes from benzene-resinoids have a sweeter ambre-like odor and often a somewh…

Labdanum Resin Absolute

Cistus ladaniferus
Resinoid Balsamic Musky Resinous Readily Available

Somewhat stronger and sweeter than that of the crude labdanum, and the "burnt" notes of the botanical raw material are subdued or eliminated in the odor of this extract.

Labdanum Resinoid

Cistus ladaniferus
Resinoid Balsamic Resinous Sweet Readily Available

Somewhat subdued labdanum odor compared to the absolute. Benzene extracts carry noticeable solvent odor. Petroleum ether extracts contain the most wanted odor principles in high co…

Laurel Berry Oil

Laurus nobilis
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Spicy Historical / Obsolete

Warm camphoraceous and spicy odor, reminiscent of myrtle, juniperberry, hyssop, Comoro-basil, cajuput and similar oils.

Lavender Oil

Lavandula officinalis
Essential Oil Floral Herbaceous Sweet Readily Available

Sweet, floral-herbaceous refreshing odor with a pleasant, balsamic-woody undertone. An almost fruity-sweet topnote is of a very short life, and the entire oil is not distinguished …

Manevoro Oil

Essential Oil Herbaceous Powdery Sweet Irregular / Rare

Sweet-woody, very rich and somewhat herbaceous odor, reminiscent of patchouli, orris, costus, Atlas cedar and sage clary concrète. The dryout on a blotter shows an increasing sweet…

Moroccan Chamomile Oil

Ormenis multicaulis
Essential Oil Balsamic Camphoraceous / Medicinal Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Fresh-herbaceous, slightly camphoraceous, but soon changes into a sweet, cistus-like and rich-balsamic undertone which is very tenacious and pleasant, almost ambra-like.

Olibanum Oil

Boswellia species
Essential Oil Balsamic Citrus Fresh / Clean Readily Available

Strongly diffusive, fresh-terpeney, almost green-lemon-like or reminiscent of green, unripe apples (peel), but not terebinthinate. A certain pepperiness is mellowed with a rich, sw…

Orange Flower Absolute

Citrus aurantium
Absolute Floral Fresh / Clean Sweet Readily Available

Very intensely floral, heavy and rich, warm, but also delicate and fresh, long-lasting odor, closely resembling the odor of fresh bitter-orange blossoms. Pleasant, but peculiar and…