7 materials found

Amyris Oil

Amyris balsamifera
Essential Oil Balsamic Sweet Woody Readily Available

Faintly woody, not dry. It has a slightly oily-sweet, balsamic note, and occasionally displays a faintly peppery topnote, reminiscent of guaiacwood or cubeb. The body-odor is very …

Bay Leaf Oil

Pimenta racemosa
Essential Oil Balsamic Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Readily Available

Fresh-spicy, somewhat medicinal, but it has a lasting, sweet-balsamic undertone. The odor of this oil is quite obnoxious to some people, sickly sweet, nauseating. To others, it is …

Bitter Orange Oil

Citrus aurantium
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Irregular / Rare

Very peculiar, fresh and yet 'bitter' in the sense of 'dry', but with a rich and lasting, sweet undertone. There are notes which remind of bergamot, grapefruit and sweet orange, bu…

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…

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…

Petitgrain Bigarade Oil

Citrus aurantium subspecies amara
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Limited Quantities

Pleasant, fresh-floral, sweet odor, reminiscent of orange flowers with a slightly woody-herbaceous undertone and very faint, but sweet-floral dryout notes. The bitter topnote is po…

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…