133 materials found

Abies Alba Oil

Abies alba
Essential Oil Balsamic Pine / Coniferous Sweet Readily Available

rich balsamic-sweet and pleasant oily-pinaceous fragrance. Oils from Austria are known for their outstanding quality and fine fragrance.

Angelica Root Absolute

Angelica archangelica
Absolute Earthy / Rooty Musky Spicy Limited Quantities

Intensely musky-woody, heavy, sweet, somewhat spicy, with a resemblance to Pimpinella root. The richness in odor body has some similarity to that of ambrette seed absolute, but the…

Angelica Root Oil

Angelica archangelica
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Musky Limited Quantities

Light, somewhat peppery topnote (from young roots). Rich, somewhat herbaceous-earthy, woody body-note of unique tenacity and great diffusive power. Slightly musky-animal-like with …

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'.

Arnica Oil

Arnica montana
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Spicy Irregular / Rare

The oil resembles that of chamomile with a certain woody-earthy undertone. Arnica Absolute or Arnica Resinoine are intensely herbaceous-sweet, tealike, somewhat spicy, powerful and…

Artemisia Vulgaris Oil

Artemisia vulgaris
Essential Oil Balsamic Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean On Order Only

Powerful, fresh-camphoraceous, somewhat green and bitter-sweet, with a cedarleaf-like topnote and a sage-rosemary-like bodynote. The dryout is very pleasant, sweet herbaceous and t…

Balsamite Oil

Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Very powerful, fresh-herbaceous and somewhat medicinal odor. The topnote bears resemblance to Evoulimba Oil or wild marjoram, pennyroyal terpenes, light fractions of pine oil. The …

Basil Oil

Ocimum basilicum
Essential Oil Balsamic Green / Leafy Herbaceous Irregular / Rare

Sweet-spicy, slightly green, fresh, with a faint balsamic woody undertone and a lasting sweetness. The exotic type is somewhat coarse-herbaceous, slightly camphoraceous in the init…

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…

Bitter Almond Oil

Prunus amygdalus var. amara
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Sweet Limited Quantities

Strong, but sweet and clean odor, reminiscent of crushed, wet bitter almonds or of a very high grade of benzaldehyde.

Bitter Fennel Oil

Foeniculum vulgare
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Earthy / Rooty Spicy Readily Available

Somewhat sharp and warm-camphoraceous odor, initially earthy, but later on sweet, anisic and spicy.

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…

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…

Broom Absolute

Spartium junceum
Absolute Coumarinic / Hay Floral Sweet Limited Quantities

Intensely sweet, floral haylike fragrance. The deep herbaceous-coumarinic background has great tenacity. The honey-rose notes are particularly useful.

Cade Oil

Juniperus oxycedrus
Essential Oil Leather Phenolic / Sharp Smoky / Tarry Readily Available

Intense tar-like, smoky-phenolic odor.

Carnation Absolute

Dianthus caryophyllus
Absolute Floral Herbaceous Sweet Limited Quantities

Very sweet, honeylike, somewhat herbaceous, heavy and tenacious fragrance, reminiscent of the odor of the live flowers only to a certain degree and only in high dilutions (5% or we…

Carrot Seed Oil

Daucus carota
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Spicy Sweet Readily Available

Peculiar dry-woody, somewhat root-like, earthy odor. The initial notes are sweet and fresh, but the tenacious undertone and dryout is very heavy, wet-earthy, fatty-oily, slightly s…

Cassie Absolute

Acacia farnesiana
Absolute Balsamic Floral Herbaceous Irregular / Rare

Extremely warm, powdery-spicy, at the same time herbaceous and floral with a deep and very tenacious cinnamic-balsamic undertone.

Celery Seed Oil

Apium graveolens
Essential Oil Spicy Sweet warm Readily Available

Spicy-warm, sweet and rich, 'soup-like', longlasting and powerful, slightly fatty, typical of the odor of the seed (fruit) but less fresh than the odor of the celery plant. One of …

Chenopodium Oil

Chenopodium ambrosioides
Essential Oil Not Commercial

Cherry Laurel Oil

Prunus laurocerasus
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Sweet Historical / Obsolete

Strong and sweet bitter almond odor.

Chimonanthus Fragrans Absolute

Chimonanthus fragrans
Absolute Citrus Floral Not Commercial

Resembling jasmin, jonquil and orange peel.

Cistus Oil

Cistus ladanifer
Essential Oil Animalic Balsamic Spicy Limited Quantities

Very powerful and tenacious odor: warm and sweet, yet dry and reminiscent of ambra in its somewhat animal notes.

Clary Sage Absolute

Salvia sclarea
Absolute Balsamic Herbaceous Sweet Limited Quantities

Extremely rich, delicately sweet, yet bitter-winy and somewhat herbaceous odor of great tenacity. The absolute has a somewhat finer, less resinous odor, more balsamic-sweet than th…

Clary Sage Oil

Salvia sclarea
Essential Oil Balsamic Herbaceous Sweet Readily Available

Sweet-herbaceous, tenacious in odor, soft and somewhat reminiscent of ambra in its bitter-sweet undertone. Apart from the initial linalylacetate—linalool notes, there is a very cha…

Coriander Oil

Coriandrum sativum
Essential Oil Balsamic Floral Spicy Readily Available

Pleasant sweet, somewhat woody-spicy, aromatic-candylike odor. The floral-balsamic undertone and peppery-woody, suave top-note are characteristic features of this delightful fragra…

Cypress Oil

Cupressus sempervirens
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Limited Quantities

Sweet-balsamic, yet refreshing odor, reminiscent of pine needles oil, templin oil, juniper berry oil, cardamom oil (without the cineole-note), and with a unique dryout of delicate …

Dalmatian Sage Oil

Salvia officinalis
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Readily Available

Fresh and strong, warm-spicy herbaceous and camphoraceous odor, somewhat reminiscent of artemisia vulgaris oil. A peculiar sweetness, reminiscent of tansy flowers, is characteristi…

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.