280 materials found

Ocimum Canum Oil

Ocimum canum
Essential Oil Balsamic Fruity Sweet Irregular / Rare

Intensely 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…

Opopanax

Commiphora erythraea var. glabrascens
Oleo-gum-resin Animalic Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Irregular / Rare

Sweet-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

Essential Oil Balsamic Resinous Spicy Readily Available

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…

Orange Flower Absolute

Citrus aurantium
Absolute Floral Fresh / Clean Sweet Readily Available

Very intensely floral, heavy and rich, warm, but also delicate and fresh, long-lasting odor, closely resembling the odor of fresh bitter-orange blossoms. Pleasant, but peculiar and…

Orange Flower Concrete

Citrus aurantium subsp. amara
Concrète Floral Sweet Woody Readily Available

Extremely strong, floral, deep-sweet, with a peculiar woody-breadcrust-like undertone and great tenacity in floral notes. In high dilution, it is strikingly reminiscent of the odor…

Orris Absolute

Iris florentina
Absolute Floral Fruity Sweet Irregular / Rare

Extremely delicate, sweet-floral, yet somewhat woody odor which appears very weak at first, but later, or on dilution, displays its full and impressive strength and diffusion. In e…

Orris Concrète Oil

Iris pallida
Essential Oil Floral Fruity Sweet Limited Quantities

Woody, fatty-oily but distinctly violet-like odor, with a fruity undertone, sweet-floral, warm and tenacious. Melts at about body temperature.

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.

Osyris Tenuifolia Oil

Osyris tenuifolia
Essential Oil Smoky / Tarry Sweet Woody Irregular / Rare

Very faint, but pleasant-woody, somewhat sweet odor, not unlike that of araucaria oil. Very crude and dark oils, or freshly distilled oils, may smell dry, tar-like, reminiscent of …

Palmarosa Oil

Cymbopogon martini
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Readily Available

Sweet, floral-rosy odor and various undertones or topnotes according to the quality and age of the oil.

Pandanus Absolute

Pandanus odoratissimus
Absolute Aldehydic / Soapy Floral Fresh / Clean Irregular / Rare

Intensely sharp, very powerful and diffusive, but also very sweet, hyacinth-honeylike odor. The powerful topnote is of very short duration, leaving only a faint, sweet-floral and f…

Paradise Seed Oil

Amomum melegueta
Essential Oil Fruity Spicy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Spicy-woody, somewhat sweet, faintly peppery odor. When comminuted, the seed emits a strong, sweet-fruity odor, reminiscent of strawberry and banana.

Paraguay Petitgrain Oil

Citrus aurantium subspecies amara
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Sweet Readily Available

Strong, bitter-sweet, woody-floral odor. The topnote is somewhat harsh, but it quickly gives way to a heavy and sweet bodynote of typical petitgrain character: bitter-floral, with …

Parsley Seed Oil

Petroselinum sativum
Essential Oil Herbaceous Spicy Sweet Limited Quantities

Warm-woody, spicy, somewhat sweet-herbaceous but not at all reminiscent of parsley herb.

Passionflower Absolute

Passiflora species
Absolute Floral Sweet Not Commercial

Very fragrant flowers. Passionflower perfumes are often composed as simple modifications of honeysuckle perfumes.

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…

Peru Balsam Oil

Myroxylon pereirae
Essential Oil Balsamic Smoky / Tarry Spicy On Order Only

Truly 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 …

Petitgrain Bigarade sur fleurs d'oranger

Citrus aurantium var. amara
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Irregular / Rare

Fresh and sweet-floral odor, reminiscent of orange flowers, of terpeneless petitgrain oil, and having a soft, sweet-woody, tenacious undertone. The orange-flowers seem to display t…

Pimenta Berry Oil

Pimenta officinalis
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Spicy Readily Available

Warm-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…

Pimenta Berry Oleoresin

Pimenta dioica
Oleoresin Spicy Sweet Woody Limited Quantities

Pimpinella Absolute

Pimpinella saxifraga, Pimpinella magna
Absolute Balsamic Herbaceous Spicy Not Commercial

Very 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 palustris
Essential Oil Balsamic Pine / Coniferous Resinous Readily Available

Sweet, 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 Pumilio Oil

Pinus pumilio
Essential Oil Balsamic Pine / Coniferous Spicy Limited Quantities

Very pleasant pine-type odor: balsamic-sweet, faintly woody, also slightly spicy, reminiscent of cypress and juniperberry, with an increasingly oily-fatty, but interesting underton…

Plumeria Rubra Absolute

Plumeria rubra
Absolute Floral Fresh / Clean Sweet Irregular / Rare

Reminiscent of neroli and gardenia, tremendously sweet, yet fresh and suave, but tenacious beyond measure. More fragrant at night than daytime.

Port Oxford Cedarwood Oil

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana
Essential Oil Herbaceous Pine / Coniferous Sweet Historical / Obsolete

Moderately sweet-woody, pine-oil-like, bitter fennel-like, substantially different from the odor of other cedarwood oils. Could remind of the odor of a mixture of pine oil and Virg…

Rectified Birch Tar Oil

Betula species
Essential Oil Leather Phenolic / Sharp Smoky / Tarry Limited Quantities

Distinctly phenolic, very penetrating and diffusive, obviously reminiscent of tar, charred wood and smoke. The most characteristic feature is the sweet-oily undertone which appears…

Reseda Absolute

Reseda odorata
Absolute Green / Leafy Herbaceous Spicy Irregular / Rare

Intensely herbaceous-green, with a sweet, watercress-like undertone, and not at all sharp. A peculiar sweetness, reminiscent of roasted chicory-root and with a spicy mellowness, fo…

Rhodium Wood Oil

Convolvulus scoparius
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Woody Historical / Obsolete

Faint, but pleasant, sweet-woody, somewhat floral odor, reminiscent of nerol, nerolidol, rhodinol and linalool.

Robinia Pseudacacia absolute

Robinia pseudacacia
Absolute Floral Spicy Sweet Not Commercial

The odor of Robinia Pseudacacia absolute is somewhat reminiscent of the absolutes of mimosa or cassie, but it has an orange flower sharpness, and a sweeter, spicier dryout than the…