13 materials found

Cardamom Oil

Elettaria cardamomum
Essential Oil Balsamic Camphoraceous / Medicinal Floral Readily Available

warm-spicy, aromatic, at first penetrating camphoraceous-cineole-like or somewhat medicinal, reminiscent of eucalyptus. Later, it becomes balsamic-woody, increasingly sweet and alm…

Cymbidium Virescens Oil

Cymbidium virescens
Essential Oil Floral Limited Quantities

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…

Nigella Damascena Oil

Nigella damascena
Essential Oil Fruity Sweet On Order Only

Peculiar and intensely sweet-fruity, nauseating and somewhat unpleasant odor when freshly distilled. After proper ageing shows great tenacity, very pleasant dryout of peculiar winy…

Olibanum Absolute

Boswellia species
Absolute Balsamic Fruity Green / Leafy Limited Quantities

Fresh balsamic, yet dry and resinous, slightly green odor with a typical, fruity-green topnote and great tenacity. The oily-green topnote can remind one of unripe apples or certain…

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 Water Absolute

Citrus aurantium var. amara
Absolute Citrus Floral Green / Leafy Limited Quantities

Peculiar dry-floral, musty-herbaceous odor, reminiscent of mandarin leaf oil, petitgrain oil, and, faintly, of orange flower absolute. Discolors significantly on ageing.

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…

Peru Balsam

Myroxylon pereirae
Balsam Balsamic Sweet Vanilla / Gourmand Readily Available

The typical 'balsamic' odor: rich, sweet, cinnamic-benzoic, soft and very tenacious, showing an increasing vanillin-like note on drying out. May have a pronounced smoky note due to…

Rose de mai absolute

Rosa centifolia
Absolute Balsamic Floral Sweet Readily Available

Rich and sweet, deep-rosy, very tenacious odor. The spicy tonalities are usually less pronounced, while the honeylike notes can be described as similar to those of the damascena ab…

Rose de mai concrète

Rosa centifolia
Concrète Floral Sweet Woody Readily Available

Warm, deep-floral, slightly woody-sweet, but the spicy or honeylike notes are less pronounced than those of damascena concrète.

Santalum Citrinum Oil

Essential Oil Balsamic Sweet Woody Limited Quantities

Very pleasant sweet-woody odor, reminiscent of sandalwood. Resembles santalol with a truly woody-balsamic undertone. Outstanding tenacity and unique uniformity of odor.

Tombacco Absolute

Absolute Coumarinic / Hay Floral Fruity Limited Quantities

Very rich, deep-sweet and floral-herbaceous odor which displays most surprising undertones, such as a sweet-fruity, prune-like, delicately floral and woody, tobacco-hay-like note. …