144 materials found
Ocimum Canum Oil
Ocimum canumIntensely sweet, woody-balsamic odor with a rich and tenacious, fruity-balsamic body-note. The topnotes can be more or less coarse, but the dryout is usually very sweet, soft and p…
Olibanum
Boswellia speciesOlibanum Absolute
Boswellia speciesFresh 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 speciesStrongly 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…
Olibanum Resinoid
Boswellia speciesExcellent odor, peculiar fixative character (see odor description under Olibanum Oil and Absolute).
Opopanax
Commiphora erythraea var. glabrascensSweet-aromatic, reminiscent of spicy soups (a faint resemblance to celery or lovage), a sweet-woody undertone and a peculiar, animal-like, also sweet and root-like note. Although t…
Opopanax Oil
Intensely sweet, balsamic, spicy, warm, yet fresh odor, somewhat reminiscent of wine residue (emptied sherry-wine glass). The vegetable-soup-like, slightly animal-sweet odor is ent…
Opopanax Resinoid
Warm, powdery, Oriental and spicy effect
Oregon Balsam
Pseudotsuga taxifoliaPleasant, fresh, pine-type odor. The 'peppery' fresh note of Canada balsam seems to be missing in the Oregon balsam.
Patchouli Oil
Pogostemon cablinExtremely 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 piperitaFresh, 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…
Peru Balsam
Myroxylon pereiraeThe 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…
Peru Balsam Oil
Myroxylon pereiraeTruly balsamic, rich, deep-sweet, slightly spicy and vanillin-sweet. A distinct smoky undertone is natural, but should not be predominant, and may fade away after proper ageing of …
Picea Excelsa Oil
Picea excelsaVery light, fresh, balsamic-pine needle type odor. The dryout is somewhat less sweet, woody, slightly cedarlike.
Pimenta Berry Oil
Pimenta officinalisWarm-spicy, sweet odor, presenting a peculiar, but fresh and clean topnote and a long-lasting, sweet, balsamic-spicy bodynote with a tea-like undertone. There is a certain resembla…
Pimpinella Absolute
Pimpinella saxifraga, Pimpinella magnaVery peculiar, sweet and extremely tenacious, somewhat spicy, strongly aromatic, herbaceous and woody. Odor characteristics vary considerably according to the type of solvent used …
Pine Oil
Pinus palustrisSweet, pine-woody, somewhat balsamic-anisic odor with an increasing sweetness in its dryout, followed by a somewhat resinous-bitter undertone according to the type and grade of oil…
Pinus Nigra Oil
Pinus nigraPleasant, balsamic-pinelike, refreshing odor. The turpentine-notes (pinene-notes) are rather dominating, and the odor has no tenacity or even faint, pleasant dryout note.
Pinus Pumilio Oil
Pinus pumilioVery pleasant pine-type odor: balsamic-sweet, faintly woody, also slightly spicy, reminiscent of cypress and juniperberry, with an increasingly oily-fatty, but interesting underton…
Rose Absolute Damascena
Rosa damascenaExtremely rich, warm, spicy-floral and very deep rose odor with a more or less pronounced honeylike undertone. Its diffusive power is only realized when diluted or used at concentr…
Rose de mai absolute
Rosa centifoliaRich 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…
Sandarac
Callitris quadrivalvisTurpentine-like, fresh-resinous and slightly balsamic odor. The essential oil is pale yellow or almost colorless mobile liquid.
Sanna Oil
Hedychium spicatumWoody-spicy with a camphoraceous-fresh-woody topnote and an increasingly spicy, cinnamon type of body note of immense richness and tenacity. On dryout, it becomes again less sweet,…
Santalum Citrinum Oil
Very pleasant sweet-woody odor, reminiscent of sandalwood. Resembles santalol with a truly woody-balsamic undertone. Outstanding tenacity and unique uniformity of odor.
Siam Benzoin
Styrax tonkinensisPleasant, sweet-balsamic with a distinct note of vanillin.
Siam Wood Oil
Fokiena hodginsiiVery pleasant, woody-balsamic, opopanax-cedar-like, mild and almost floral odor which tones out in a cleaner, woody note, reminiscent of the odor from rectified Texas cedar-wood oi…
Siberian Fir Needle Oil
Abies sibiricaRefreshingly balsamic, slightly fatty or oily with a powerful pine-forest odor, and a peculiar fruity-balsamic undertone.
Spruce Oil
Tsuga canadensisVery pleasant, balsamic-fresh odor with a peculiar sweet-oily and slightly fruity undertone. Odor characteristics can vary significantly according to origin and botanical species u…
Styrax
Liquidambar orientalisAsian styrax has balsamic sweetness. American (Honduras) styrax is more 'gasolinelike' (styrene-odor), covering the balsamic sweetness of the main ingredients.
Styrax Oil
Very rich, balsamic-sweet, floral and somewhat spicy, reminiscent of lilac, hyacinth, although it has a distinct topnote of hydrocarbon character, unpleasant and actually not wante…