44 materials found

Anise Oil

Pimpinella anisum
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Spicy Sweet Limited Quantities

Intensely sweet and clean odor, truly reminiscent of the crushed fruit. Very common description is that of 'licorice odor'.

Bergamot Oil

Citrus bergamia
Essential Oil Citrus Fruity Sweet Readily Available

Extremely rich, sweet-fruity initial odor. Although the characteristics of this topnote remain perceptible in good oils, it is followed by a still more characteristic oily-herbaceo…

Birch Bark Oil

Betula lenta
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Minty Historical / Obsolete

Smells so strikingly similar to methyl salicylate that it is hard to justify the existence of the essential oil.

Bitter Almond Oil

Prunus amygdalus var. amara
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Sweet Limited Quantities

Strong, but sweet and clean odor, reminiscent of crushed, wet bitter almonds or of a very high grade of benzaldehyde.

Caraway Oil

Carum carvi
Essential Oil Herbaceous Phenolic / Sharp Spicy Readily Available

Strong and peculiar odor typical of the fruit, but with a fatty-harsh undertone in crude oil. Rectified oil has stronger, less fatty odor. Characteristic initial note of nauseating…

Cassia Oil

Cinnamomum cassia
Essential Oil Balsamic Spicy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Strong, spicy, warm and woody-resinous odor with an intensely sweet, somewhat balsamic undertone.

Ceylon Cinnamon Bark Oil

Cinnamomum zeylanicum
Essential Oil Spicy Sweet Woody Limited Quantities

Extremely powerful, diffusive, warm-spicy, sweet and tenacious odor. The undertone and dryout notes reveal a persistent dryness which is very unique in combination with the distinc…

Cinnamon Leaf Oil

Cinnamomum zeylanicum
Essential Oil Oriental / Heavy Spicy Woody Readily Available

Warm-spicy, but rather harsh odor, lacking the rich body of the bark oil. Has some resemblance to the odor of clove leaf oil and clove stem oil.

Clove Bud Oil

Eugenia caryophyllata
Essential Oil Fruity Spicy Sweet Readily Available

Sweet-spicy note with fruity-fresh topnote and a touch of acetic odor making it refreshing. The eugenol note is distinctly subdued, sweetened and freshened by trace materials.

Coriander Oil

Coriandrum sativum
Essential Oil Balsamic Floral Spicy Readily Available

Pleasant sweet, somewhat woody-spicy, aromatic-candylike odor. The floral-balsamic undertone and peppery-woody, suave top-note are characteristic features of this delightful fragra…

Distilled Lime Oil

Citrus aurantifolia
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Fruity Readily Available

Sharp, fresh, terpenelike, somewhat perfumery-fruity citrus-type odor. Very volatile with poor tenacity, but shows increasing sweetness on drying out, the notes becoming more orang…

East Indian Sandalwood Oil

Santalum album
Essential Oil Animalic Balsamic Sweet Readily Available

Extremely soft, sweet-woody and almost animal-balsamic odor, presenting little or no particular topnote, and remaining uniform for a considerable length of time due to its outstand…

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 Absolute

Anthoxanthum odoratum
Absolute Coumarinic / Hay Herbaceous Mossy Limited Quantities

Very sweet, herbaceous, tobacco-like and coumarinic odor. The odor is so rich and so complex that one can keep on finding notes in it. However, the overall fragrance is a sweet, li…

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 …

Galanga Oil

Alpinia officinarum
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Spicy Irregular / Rare

Fresh-camphoraceous and spicy-woody odor reminiscent of laurel leaf oil, cardamom oil, ginger oil, etc., with a distinct cineole-like topnote and a warm undertone of rich and spicy…

Ginger Oleoresin

Zingiber officinale
Oleoresin Spicy Sweet Woody Readily Available

Warm-spicy, sweet and very aromatic-rich.

Hay Oil

Essential Oil Coumarinic / Hay Floral Herbaceous Irregular / Rare

Delightfully sweet-herbaceous, tea-like fragrance, reminiscent of the odor of sage clary, wet tea leaves and hay. The undertone and the dryout are almost floral-woody, but remain s…

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…

Lemon Oil

Citrus limomum
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Fruity Readily Available

Very light, fresh and sweet odor, truly reminiscent of the ripe peel. No turpentine-like, harsh-terpene notes should be detectable on a perfume blotter. Good oils retain their fres…

Licorice Extract

Glycyrrhiza glabra
Extract Earthy / Rooty Spicy Sweet Readily Available

Sweet, mild odor somewhat different from that of the botanical starting material (the aqueous extract is often evaporated over an open fire and some caramellization of the extract …

Mandarin Peel Oil

Citrus reticulata
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Sweet Readily Available

Intensely sweet, not very fresh odor, occasionally with an amine-like, 'fishy' topnote and usually with a rich neroli-like, floral undertone. Shows beautiful bluish fluorescence up…

Mentha Arvensis Oil

Mentha arvensis
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Minty Readily Available

Strong, fresh and somewhat bitter-sweet odor, to a certain degree reminiscent of the odor of peppermint oil. The undertone is somewhat harsh-woody and the dryout is bitter-herbaceo…

Mentha Citrata Oil

Mentha citrata
Essential Oil Citrus Fruity Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Sweet-herbaceous, somewhat fruity-fresh odor type; it resembles bergamot, but is distinctly more harsh in its terpenic topnotes, less rich in body, and without the oily-sweet, cand…

Neroli Oil

Citrus aurantium
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Sweet Irregular / Rare

Very powerful, light and refreshing, floral with a peculiar sweet-terpeney topnote, but its tenacity is rather poor. This oil is primarily a 'top-note' material in perfumery.

North American Sassafras Oil

Sassafras albidum
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Spicy Limited Quantities

Sweet-spicy, fresh and slightly camphoraceous odor with a long-lasting, woody-floral and very sweet undertone. A short, fresh-peppery topnote is characteristic of the odor of this …

Orange Oil, Bitter, concentrated

Citrus aurantium
Essential Oil Citrus Fruity Readily Available

Orris Resinoid

Iris pallida
Resinoid Sweet Tobacco Woody Readily Available

Deep-sweet, slightly woody-tobacco-like odor with winy topnote and sweet, root-like undertone.

Patchouli Oil

Pogostemon cablin
Essential Oil Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Readily Available

Extremely rich, sweet-herbaceous, aromatic-spicy and woody-balsamic odor. An almost wine-like, ethereal-floral sweetness in the initial notes is characteristic of good oils. The od…

Peppermint Oil

Mentha piperita
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Minty Readily Available

Fresh, strong, somewhat grassy-minty odor with a deep balsamic-sweet undertone and a sweet, clean dryout note. The grassy topnote may disappear or fade after proper ageing of the o…