74 materials found

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.

Fenugreek Extract

Trigonella foenum-graecum
Extract Balsamic Coumarinic / Hay Herbaceous Readily Available

Intensely sweet, spicy, protein like, soup-like and caramellic odor from comminuted seed. The characteristic odor is a celery-like spicyness, a coumarinic-balsamic sweetness and an…

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…

Gardenia

Gardenia grandiflora
Absolute Floral Green / Leafy Sweet Historical / Obsolete

Fatty-floral, somewhat fresh-green odor with a tuberose-like, sweet undertone, faintly reminiscent of the fragrance of the gardenia flower, but with heavy emphasis on the leafy-gre…

Garlic Oil

Allium sativum
Essential Oil Herbaceous Phenolic / Sharp Limited Quantities

Extremely intense obnoxious odor, to a certain degree reminiscent of garlic, but with a predominant mercaptane-like note which masks the delicate, although strong and highly diffus…

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 …

Ho Leaf Oil

Cinnamomum camphora
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Woody Readily Available

clean, sweet, floral-woody and delicate odor. There is little or no change in the odor during the evaporation on a perfume blotter, and the tenacity is only moderate. Rectified Ho …

Ho Wood Oil

Cinnamomum camphora
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Floral Sweet Limited Quantities

Sweet-camphoraceous, somewhat woody-floral odor. The best grades are virtually free from camphoraceous notes.

Japanese Cedarwood Oils

Essential Oil Pine / Coniferous Woody Limited Quantities

Cedarwood-like and pine-like raw materials.

Jasmin Absolute from Concrète

Jasminum grandiflorum
Absolute Balsamic Floral Fruity Readily Available

Intensely floral, warm, rich and highly diffusive odor with a peculiar waxy-herbaceous, oily-fruity and tea-like undertone. The odor and the nuances in the undertone varies accordi…

Jasmin Concrète

Jasminum officinale
Concrète Animalic Floral Sweet Readily Available

Warm, intensely floral, somewhat indolic-sharp, but immensely rich and tenacious. Various types of herbaceous sweet, fatty green, tea-like or 'bread'-like, almost 'broth'-like odor…

Laurel Leaf Oil

Laurus nobilis
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Spicy Limited Quantities

Fresh, strong but sweet, aromatic-camphoraceous, somewhat spicy-medicinal odor. The dryout notes are sweet, pleasant and slightly spicy, unlike those of eucalyptus, cajuput and, to…

Lawang Oil

Cinnamomum culilawan
Essential Oil Spicy Sweet Woody Irregular / Rare

Warm, rich, spicy odor. Clove-like odor when high in eugenol, changing to nutmeg-like fragrance when containing safrole behind the eugenol.

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…

Lemon Oil

Citrus limomum
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Fruity Readily Available

Very light, fresh and sweet odor, truly reminiscent of the ripe peel. No turpentine-like, harsh-terpene notes should be detectable on a perfume blotter. Good oils retain their fres…

Litsea Cubeba Oil

Litsea cubeba
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Fruity Irregular / Rare

Intensely lemon-like, fresh and sweet odor, with a soft and sweet-fruity, uniform dryout. Few or no 'fatty-grassy' methyl heptenone notes detectable.

Magnolia

Magnolia grandiflora
Absolute Floral Sweet Not Commercial

Extremely delicate, sweet fragrance, reminiscent of rose, violet and orange flowers or, in the opinion of others, like rosa canina, the common hedgerose (dogrose, hiprose).

Mentha Arvensis Oil

Mentha arvensis
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Minty Readily Available

Strong, fresh and somewhat bitter-sweet odor, to a certain degree reminiscent of the odor of peppermint oil. The undertone is somewhat harsh-woody and the dryout is bitter-herbaceo…

Murraya Paniculata Oil

Murraya paniculata
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Not Commercial

Orange-flower-like or jasmin-like in odor.

Musk

Moschus moschiferus
Animal (crude) Animalic Musky Sweet Irregular / Rare

Characteristic animal-type, slightly amine-like, sweet and very persistent odor. Intense, yet typical musk odor in absolute form.

Néflier Concrète

Eriobotrya japonica
Concrète Balsamic Floral Sweet Not Commercial

Extremely rich, delicately floral odor, reminiscent of lilac or hyacinth, however, more suave-balsamic than the odor of these flowers.

Neroli Oil

Citrus aurantium
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Sweet Irregular / Rare

Very powerful, light and refreshing, floral with a peculiar sweet-terpeney topnote, but its tenacity is rather poor. This oil is primarily a 'top-note' material in perfumery.

Nyctanthes Arbortristis Oil

Nyctanthes arbortristis
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Irregular / Rare

Fresh and strong gardenia jasmin type odor, somewhat similar to orange flowers and jasmin.

Osmanthus Fragrans

Osmanthus fragrans
Absolute Floral Irregular / Rare

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…

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…

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.

Rose Absolute Damascena

Rosa damascena
Absolute Balsamic Floral Spicy Readily Available

Extremely rich, warm, spicy-floral and very deep rose odor with a more or less pronounced honeylike undertone. Its diffusive power is only realized when diluted or used at concentr…