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Anise Oil

Pimpinella anisum
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Spicy Sweet Limited Quantities

Intensely sweet and clean odor, truly reminiscent of the crushed fruit. Very common description is that of 'licorice odor'.

Beeswax Absolute

Apis mellifera
Absolute Coumarinic / Hay Sweet waxy Limited Quantities

Very mild, sweet, oily odor, with a haylike or coumarinic bodynote and a soft, waxy undertone. The odor is remotely reminiscent of good (not harsh) linseed oil with a trace of hone…

Boldo Leaf Oil

Peumus boldus
Essential Oil Herbaceous Spicy Limited Quantities

Strong, spicy-hydrocarbon-like odor, somewhat reminiscent of American wormseed oil.

Verbena Oil

Lippia citriodora
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Historical / Obsolete

Intensely fresh, lemon-like odor which slowly changes into a sweet, almost fruity bodynote and fades out almost unchanged, sweet floral-fruity, slightly rosy.

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