72 materials found
Ammoniac Gum
Dorema ammoniacumPenetrating sulphuraceous-mercaptanelike odor, reminiscent of onions. The alcohol soluble portion of the essential-oil-free ammoniac gum is a pleasant smelling, balsamic type.
Anise Oil
Pimpinella anisumIntensely sweet and clean odor, truly reminiscent of the crushed fruit. Very common description is that of 'licorice odor'.
Asafoetida
Ferula asafoetidaDistinctly alliaceous odor with garlic-onion-like topnote, beneath which is an immensely rich and sweet-balsamic body of highly interesting type. The dryout reveals some vanillin o…
Basil Oil
Ocimum basilicumSweet-spicy, slightly green, fresh, with a faint balsamic woody undertone and a lasting sweetness. The exotic type is somewhat coarse-herbaceous, slightly camphoraceous in the init…
Black Pepper Oil
Piper nigrumFresh, 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.
Calamus Oil
Acorus calamusWarm, 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…
Canadian Snakeroot Oil
Asarum canadenseWarm-aromatic, woody-spicy, yet rich and sweet with a minty-gingerlike undertone, and a pronounced tealike, lasting dryout.
Canella
Canella albaCapsicum
Capsicum annuumCapsicum Absolute has an interesting tobacco-like, sweet-herbaceous odor.
Caraway Oil
Carum carviStrong 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…
Cardamom Oil
Elettaria cardamomumwarm-spicy, aromatic, at first penetrating camphoraceous-cineole-like or somewhat medicinal, reminiscent of eucalyptus. Later, it becomes balsamic-woody, increasingly sweet and alm…
Carrot Seed Oil
Daucus carotaPeculiar dry-woody, somewhat root-like, earthy odor. The initial notes are sweet and fresh, but the tenacious undertone and dryout is very heavy, wet-earthy, fatty-oily, slightly s…
Celery Seed Oil
Apium graveolensSpicy-warm, sweet and rich, 'soup-like', longlasting and powerful, slightly fatty, typical of the odor of the seed (fruit) but less fresh than the odor of the celery plant. One of …
Celery Seed Oleoresin
Apium graveolensVery powerful odor and flavor, typical of the aroma of the seed: warm, fatty-spicy and rich, intensely sweet-herbal, radiant and tenacious.
Cinnamon Leaf Oil
Cinnamomum zeylanicumWarm-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.
Clary Sage Oil
Salvia sclareaSweet-herbaceous, tenacious in odor, soft and somewhat reminiscent of ambra in its bitter-sweet undertone. Apart from the initial linalylacetate—linalool notes, there is a very cha…
Clove Bud Absolute
Eugenia caryophyllataOily-sweet, intensely rich and spicy, slightly sour-fruity and refreshing. Very closely reminiscent of dry clove buds. The absolute presents a floral and refined type of this fragr…
Clove Bud Oil
Eugenia caryophyllataSweet-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.
Clove Stem Oil
Syzygium aromaticumStrong spicy, somewhat woody, but quite pleasant odor when fairly fresh and well stored. The odor is not very different from that of eugenol (which is sweeter and less woody). Redi…
Coriander Oil
Coriandrum sativumPleasant sweet, somewhat woody-spicy, aromatic-candylike odor. The floral-balsamic undertone and peppery-woody, suave top-note are characteristic features of this delightful fragra…
Cubeb Oil
Piper cubebaVery dry-woody, but simultaneously warm-camphoraceous, spicy-peppery. Should be free from the very light pepper-like characteristic found in black pepper and elemi oils, and should…
Cubeb Oleoresin
Piper cubebaWarm-spicy, peppery-camphoraceous with a rich, herbaceous undertone.
Cumin Absolute
Cuminum cyminumPowerful, but delicately mellow and round, green-spicy odor, very closely reminiscent of the odor of the crushed seed from which it is derived. The absolute has a striking resembla…
Cumin Oil
Cuminum cyminumExtremely powerful, diffusive, green-spicy, slightly fatty, but at the same time not sharp or pungent, almost soft and mellow. This softness is one of the main features of a true o…
Curcuma Oil
Curcuma longaUsually spicy and fresh, reminiscent of sweet orange, ginger and galanga. Japanese curcuma oil is warm, dry-woody, powdery, camphoraceous and slightly peppery-spicy with a peculiar…
Curcuma Oleoresin
Curcuma longaFaint odor reminiscent of the odor of the spice. Solvent odor should not be perceptible.
Dalmatian Sage Oil
Salvia officinalisFresh and strong, warm-spicy herbaceous and camphoraceous odor, somewhat reminiscent of artemisia vulgaris oil. A peculiar sweetness, reminiscent of tansy flowers, is characteristi…
Dictam Oil
Dictamnus hispanicusVery fresh, sweet and anisic odor, reminiscent of Texas goldenrod oil. The odor also resembles that of estragon but it is less green-herbal than this. There is finally some resembl…
Dill Weed Oil
Anethum graveolensPowerful and fresh, sweet-spicy, peppery and aromatic odor, reminiscent of elemi oil, spearmint oil, citrus oils, etc. with a sweet, nutmeg-like undertone.
Estragon Oil
Artemisia dracunculusSweet-anisic, green-spicy, slightly celery-like odor, very similar to that of the fresh herb.