202 materials found

Costus Absolute

Absolute Balsamic Sweet Woody Limited Quantities

Similar to the essential oil but appears at first much weaker and less harsh. Strikingly similar to that of the root itself. Soft, sweet-woody and fatty without any unpleasant hars…

Costus Oil

Saussurea lappa
Essential Oil Animalic Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Readily Available

Peculiar 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…

Cryptomeria Japonica Oil

Cryptomeria japonica
Essential Oil Spicy Woody Limited Quantities

Woody-cedarlike with a faint peppery undertone, not unlike Atractylis Oil (which is much more pungent) or Araucaria Oil (which is much milder).

Cubeb Oil

Piper cubeba
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Spicy Woody Limited Quantities

Very 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…

Curcuma Oil

Curcuma longa
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Citrus Powdery Limited Quantities

Usually 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 longa
Oleoresin Spicy Sweet Woody Limited Quantities

Faint odor reminiscent of the odor of the spice. Solvent odor should not be perceptible.

Cyperus Oil

Cyperus scariosus
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Oriental / Heavy Spicy Limited Quantities

Woody-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…

Dacrydium Elatum Oil

Dacrydium elatum
Essential Oil Balsamic Pine / Coniferous Woody Historical / Obsolete

Dry-balsamic, woody odor, reminiscent of crude Virginia cedarwood oil.

Douglas Fir Needles Oil

Pseudotsuga taxifolia
Essential Oil Balsamic Pine / Coniferous Sweet Irregular / Rare

Very rich, woody-balsamic, sweet pine-needle type odor. Main characteristic is softness and sweetness, very rich bodynote and great odor tenacity which is exceptional for a pine ne…

East African Cedarwood Oil

Juniperus procera
Essential Oil Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Woody Readily Available

Very 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…

East Indian Sandalwood Oil

Santalum album
Essential Oil Animalic Balsamic Sweet Readily Available

Extremely soft, sweet-woody and almost animal-balsamic odor, presenting little or no particular topnote, and remaining uniform for a considerable length of time due to its outstand…

Elecampane Absolute

Inula helenium
Absolute Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Sweet Irregular / Rare

Very soft, woody-rootlike, slightly fatty-sweet or 'oily', extremely tenacious. Less earthy, more tenacious and rich odor than the essential oil.

Elecampane Oil

Inula helenium
Essential Oil Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Sweet Limited Quantities

Dry-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.

Elemi

Canarium commune
Oleoresin Balsamic Citrus Fresh / Clean Readily Available

Very fresh, terpeney, peppery-lemony, with a woody-balsamic background note. The odor bears some similarity to that of dill weed oil.

Elemi Oil

Essential Oil Balsamic Citrus Fresh / Clean Readily Available

Light, fresh, lemon-like, peppery odor which later dries out into a balsamic, slightly green-woody and sweet-spicy, pleasant note. Responsible for the fresh-lemony, peppery odor of…

Eucalyptus Macarthuri Oil

Eucalyptus macarthuri
Essential Oil Floral Fresh / Clean Fruity Irregular / Rare

Intensely fresh, fruity-rosy initial odor, sweet-rosy and fruity-woody body notes and a pleasant, sweet, faint-woody dryout. Considerable difference in odor characteristics between…

Eugenia Jambolana Oil

Eugenia jambolana
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Earthy / Rooty Spicy Not Commercial

Dry, 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…

Everlasting Absolute

Helichrysum angustifolium
Absolute Coumarinic / Hay Floral Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Intensely sweet-herbaceous, coumarinic, honeylike, slightly woody-floral with a peculiar licorice-like undertone. The heavy and fruity sweetness is sometimes compared to that of bl…

Fern Extract

Dryopteris filix-mas
Oleoresin earthy Sweet Woody Limited Quantities

Sweet-woody, somewhat earthy, very rich and tenacious but of comparatively poor strength (low odor yield) in perfume compositions. Light, green-bark-like or cambial like notes are …

Fig Leaf Absolute

Ficus carica
Absolute Green / Leafy Herbaceous Mossy Limited Quantities

Delicately sweet-green, herbaceous and somewhat woody odor with a mossy undertone.

Galanga Oil

Alpinia officinarum
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Spicy Irregular / Rare

Fresh-camphoraceous and spicy-woody odor reminiscent of laurel leaf oil, cardamom oil, ginger oil, etc., with a distinct cineole-like topnote and a warm undertone of rich and spicy…

Galanga Oleoresin

Alpinia officinarum
Oleoresin Balsamic Fresh / Clean Spicy On Order Only

Spicy-balsamic, warm, yet fresh odor.

Galbanum

Ferula species
Oleo-gum-resin Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Green / Leafy Readily Available

Powerful, 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…

Galbanum Oil

Ferula galbaniflua
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Readily Available

Intensely green, fresh-leafy odor with a dry-woody undertone of balsamic, bark like character. Very striking description often heard is 'like green peppers or tossed green salad'. …

Galbanum Resinoid

Resinoid Balsamic Green / Leafy Resinous Readily Available

Intensely rich-green, woody-balsamic, yet with a dry undertone, and it has the typical 'green peppers' foliage-like note which is so pronounced in the essential oil. The resinous, …

Ginger Absolute

Zingiber officinale
Absolute Camphoraceous / Medicinal Citrus Spicy Not Commercial

Very true reproduction of ginger rhizome, concentrated many times. The sweetness is emphasized, the rich, warm spiciness is predominant, and the tenacity is only modest. The typica…

Gingergrass Oil

Cymbopogon martini var. sofia
Essential Oil Floral Green / Leafy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Peculiar fatty-sweet, oily odor, leaving a slightly woody and rosy dryout note. The grassy notes, and particularly the rather fresh-spicy topnotes are entirely different from those…

Ginger Oil

Zingiber officinale
Essential Oil Balsamic Citrus Spicy Readily Available

The odor is warm, but fresh-woody, spicy and with a peculiar resemblance to orange, lemon, lemon-grass, coriander seed oil, etc. in the initial, fresh topnotes. The sweet and heavy…

Ginger Oleoresin

Zingiber officinale
Oleoresin Spicy Sweet Woody Readily Available

Warm-spicy, sweet and very aromatic-rich.

Guaiacwood Oil

Bulnesia sarmienti
Essential Oil Balsamic Floral Sweet Readily Available

Delicately sweet, rosy-woody odor which is often referred to as 'tearose-like'. May occasionally have an unwanted 'smoked ham' odor in oils that have been forced during distillatio…