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7 materials found

Amber Oil

Pinus succinifera
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Leather Resinous Limited Quantities

Crude: smoky, tarlike, resinous, with a distinct resemblance to the odor of tanned leather. Rectified: peculiar burnt-woody, somewhat camphoraceous odor, reminiscent of the 'still-…

Birch

Betula species
Other Readily Available

Birch Leaf-Bud Oil

Betula alba
Essential Oil Balsamic Green / Leafy Woody Limited Quantities

Pleasant woody-green, balsamic odor.

Black Currant materials

Ribes nigrum
Other Phenolic / Sharp Spicy Woody Irregular / Rare

Powerful spicy-woody odor with slightly phenolic undertone and not outstanding tenacity (absolute). Distinctly terpenic odor reminiscent of terpenes in nutmeg, neroli, basil, or ma…

Caraway Oil

Carum carvi
Essential Oil Herbaceous Phenolic / Sharp Spicy Readily Available

Strong and peculiar odor typical of the fruit, but with a fatty-harsh undertone in crude oil. Rectified oil has stronger, less fatty odor. Characteristic initial note of nauseating…

Mustard Oil

Brassica nigra
Essential Oil Phenolic / Sharp Readily Available

Extremely sharp, acrylic, irritating odor, and of lachrymatory effect.

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…

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