13 materials found

Cardamom Oil

Elettaria cardamomum
Essential Oil Balsamic Camphoraceous / Medicinal Floral Readily Available

warm-spicy, aromatic, at first penetrating camphoraceous-cineole-like or somewhat medicinal, reminiscent of eucalyptus. Later, it becomes balsamic-woody, increasingly sweet and alm…

Ceylon Cinnamon Bark Oil

Cinnamomum zeylanicum
Essential Oil Spicy Sweet Woody Limited Quantities

Extremely powerful, diffusive, warm-spicy, sweet and tenacious odor. The undertone and dryout notes reveal a persistent dryness which is very unique in combination with the distinc…

Ceylon Citronella Oil

Cymbopogon nardus
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Readily Available

Very peculiar, warm-woody and yet fresh, grassy and somewhat reminiscent of wet leaves. The camphene-borneol-methyleugenol complex seems to characterize the odor of Ceylon citronel…

Cinnamon Leaf Oil

Cinnamomum zeylanicum
Essential Oil Oriental / Heavy Spicy Woody Readily Available

Warm-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.

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…

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…

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…

Henna

Lawsonia inermis
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Floral Herbaceous Not Commercial

Flowers smell extremely sweet, delicately floral and tealike, reminiscent of boronia and chloranthus spicatus oils. The attar is somewhat medicinal, phenolic or bitter, but with a …

Lemongrass Oil

Cymbopogon flexuosus / Cymbopogon citratus
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Readily Available

Very strong, fresh-grassy lemon-type, herbaceous or tea-like odor. West Indian type has an earthy undertone reminiscent of Ceylon citronella oil, while East Indian type smells swee…

Long Pepper Oil

Piper longum
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Spicy Woody Not Commercial

Somewhat reminiscent of the odor of various "false" cubeb oils: warm and faintly aromatic, somewhat woody and cineole-lemon-like. Complete absence of "light" or fresh-peppery topno…

Nutmeg Extract

Myristica fragrans
Extract Balsamic Spicy Sweet Limited Quantities

Very warm, suave, spicy-balsamic and strongly aromatic odor.

Vetiver Oil

Vetiveria zizanoides
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Sweet Woody Readily Available

sweet and very heavy woody-earthy, reminiscent of roots and wet soil, with a rich undertone of "precious wood" notes. Oils distilled from too young rootlets and very freshly distil…

Zedoaria Oil

Curcuma zedoaria
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Spicy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Warm, woody-spicy, camphoraceous-cineolic in its initial notes, later sweet and warm, very tenacious. Does not present the lemon-orange-like note found in ginger oil, but apart fro…