48 materials found
Angelica Root Absolute
Angelica archangelicaIntensely musky-woody, heavy, sweet, somewhat spicy, with a resemblance to Pimpinella root. The richness in odor body has some similarity to that of ambrette seed absolute, but the…
Angelica Root Oil
Angelica archangelicaLight, somewhat peppery topnote (from young roots). Rich, somewhat herbaceous-earthy, woody body-note of unique tenacity and great diffusive power. Slightly musky-animal-like with …
Arnica Oil
Arnica montanaThe oil resembles that of chamomile with a certain woody-earthy undertone. Arnica Absolute or Arnica Resinoine are intensely herbaceous-sweet, tealike, somewhat spicy, powerful and…
Artemisia Alba Oil
Artemisia albaVery powerful, bitter-herbaceous odor. The 'greenness' in odor type and the peculiar bitter aroma makes it interesting for chypre, fougère, 'forest' notes.
Atractylis Oil
Atractylis ovataStrong peppery, woody-spicy, warm and dry, somewhat reminiscent of elemi, ginger, and galanga.
Bitter Fennel Oil
Foeniculum vulgareSomewhat sharp and warm-camphoraceous odor, initially earthy, but later on sweet, anisic and spicy.
Buchu Leaf Oil
Barosma betulinaVery peculiar: strong, bitter-sweet, minty-camphoraceous, rootlike, penetrating and somewhat medicinal, reminiscent of cough preparations.
Cangerana Oil
Cabralea cangeranaDistinctly woody, very dry and earthy, spicy-peppery, reminiscent of cubeb oil, cyperus oils, carrot seed oil, clove leaf sesquiterpenes.
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…
Cedrela Odorata Oil
Cedrela odorataPleasant, dry-woody and powerful odor, reminiscent of cedarwood oil, Texas and cubeb oil or clove leaf oil sesquiterpenes with an undertone like carrot seed oil, however, without t…
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.
Costus Oil
Saussurea lappaPeculiar soft, but extremely tenacious odor, reminiscent of old, precious wood, orris root, fatty (but not rancid) acids, vetiverol, etc., with a distinctly animal or sebaceous und…
Cyperus Oil
Cyperus scariosusWoody-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…
East African Cedarwood Oil
Juniperus proceraVery dry-woody, somewhat earthy and quite strong with a slightly cade-like topnote. The dry notes yield to an increasing balsamic sweetness as the oil dries out on a perfume blotte…
Elecampane Absolute
Inula heleniumVery soft, woody-rootlike, slightly fatty-sweet or 'oily', extremely tenacious. Less earthy, more tenacious and rich odor than the essential oil.
Elecampane Oil
Inula heleniumDry-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.
Eugenia Jambolana Oil
Eugenia jambolanaDry, woody, strong and spicy-earthy like a very poor patchouli oil (cade-like topnote). There is an undertone with some similarity to clove leaf oil, but a strong and heavy terpene…
Flouve Oil
Anthoxanthum odoratumIntensely 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 …
Galbanum
Ferula speciesPowerful, green-woody, almost balsamic-resinous, reminiscent of oleoresins from conifers. The leafy-earthy, green note is often referred to as 'like green peppers' or 'tossed green…
Geranium Absolute
Pelargonium graveolensIntense and very powerful, somewhat leafy-earthy, but soft and pleasant odor. The leafy-green notes are quite pronounced, but the rich, rosy-minty undertone remains on a blotter th…
Geranium Concrète
Pelargonium graveolensIntensely earthy herbaceous, somewhat sharp-rosy, foliage-green odor and great tenacity.
Indian Valerian Oil
Valeriana wallichiiBalsamic-woody, slightly spicy-root-like odor with a distinct note of valerian acid, more or less pronounced according to the age of the oil. The musk-like and patchouli like, camp…
Ivy Leaf Absolute
Hedera helixIntensively herbaceous-green, or bark-green odor, and a rich, sweet-bitter foliage-extract undertone. Among the most interesting 'green' or 'foliage'-like natural materials.
Labdanum Absolute from Resinoid
Cistus ladaniferPetroleum 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…
Licorice Extract
Glycyrrhiza glabraSweet, 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 …
Lovage Root Oil
Levisticum officinaleVery powerful and rich, spicy-warm, fresh-aromatic, intensely sweet and "root-like" odor, suggestive of celery, angelica, licorice extract, deertongue oleoresin, etc.
Machilus Wood Oil
Machilus kusanoiSlightly spicy-woody, tobacco-like or cigarbox-like, somewhat earthy, mild, but tenacious. Some resemblance to the odor of araucaria, guaiacwood, atractylis, but milder and less pe…
Marigold Absolute
Calendula officinalisIntensely bitter-herbaceous odor with very peculiar notes and a green "crushed-stalk" note.
Mawah Oil
Pelargonium radulaSomewhat bitter-harsh, leafy-woody, slightly earthy, but later toning out in a much more pleasant rosy, 'geranium' type of odor. The dryout note is more similar to that of palmaros…
Melilotus Extract
Melilotus officinalisVery sweet, herbaceous-root-like and rich odor. Often described as 'tobacco-like', though this is a coumarin-type odor that is artificially introduced in cured tobacco for flavorin…