95 materials found

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…

Costus Oil

Saussurea lappa
Essential Oil Animalic Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Readily Available

Peculiar soft, but extremely tenacious odor, reminiscent of old, precious wood, orris root, fatty (but not rancid) acids, vetiverol, etc., with a distinctly animal or sebaceous und…

Cumin Oil

Cuminum cyminum
Essential Oil Green / Leafy Herbaceous Spicy Readily Available

Extremely powerful, diffusive, green-spicy, slightly fatty, but at the same time not sharp or pungent, almost soft and mellow. This softness is one of the main features of a true o…

Curcuma Oil

Curcuma longa
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Citrus Powdery Limited Quantities

Usually spicy and fresh, reminiscent of sweet orange, ginger and galanga. Japanese curcuma oil is warm, dry-woody, powdery, camphoraceous and slightly peppery-spicy with a peculiar…

Cyperus Oil

Cyperus scariosus
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Oriental / Heavy Spicy Limited Quantities

Woody-earthy and very tenacious odor. The very first impression bears great resemblance to the Oriental cinnamon-olibanum complex: diffusive, dry, woody, slightly spicy. The overal…

Davana Oil

Artemisia pallens
Essential Oil Balsamic Green / Leafy Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Sharp, penetrating, bitter-green, foliage-like and powerfully herbaceous with a sweet-balsamic, tenacious undertone.

Dill Seed Oil

Anethum graveolens
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Minty Limited Quantities

Light and fresh, warm-spicy and reminiscent of caraway and spearmint, although less sharp.

East Indian Sandalwood Oil

Santalum album
Essential Oil Animalic Balsamic Sweet Readily Available

Extremely soft, sweet-woody and almost animal-balsamic odor, presenting little or no particular topnote, and remaining uniform for a considerable length of time due to its outstand…

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.

Eucalyptus Globulus Oil

Eucalyptus globulus
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Readily Available

Eugenia Jambolana Oil

Eugenia jambolana
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Earthy / Rooty Spicy Not Commercial

Dry, woody, strong and spicy-earthy like a very poor patchouli oil (cade-like topnote). There is an undertone with some similarity to clove leaf oil, but a strong and heavy terpene…

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…

Frangipani

Plumeria acutifolia
Absolute Floral Sweet Not Commercial

Delightful fragrance somewhat reminiscent of orange flower, honeysuckle and gardenia, although not strictly indolic of character.

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…

Geranium

Pelargonium species
Essential Oil Readily Available

Geranium Oils

Pelargonium species
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Limited Quantities

Rich and very sweet-rosy base (for Geranium sur Roses de Grasse variant).

Gingergrass Oil

Cymbopogon martini var. sofia
Essential Oil Floral Green / Leafy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Peculiar fatty-sweet, oily odor, leaving a slightly woody and rosy dryout note. The grassy notes, and particularly the rather fresh-spicy topnotes are entirely different from those…

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…

Ginger Oleoresin

Zingiber officinale
Oleoresin Spicy Sweet Woody Readily Available

Warm-spicy, sweet and very aromatic-rich.

Gurjun Balsam

Dipterocarpus species
Oleoresin Balsamic Pine / Coniferous Sweet Readily Available

Faintly sweet, woody, pine-like, reminiscent of copaiba balsam and amyris oil, however, with a crude undertone similar to that of a steam distilled pine oil (American).

Gurjun Balsam Oil

Dipterocarpus species
Essential Oil Balsamic Sweet Woody Limited Quantities

Mild-woody, somewhat balsamic-sweet odor and great tenacity. Very little 'odor value', but blends perfectly with a multitude of common perfume materials.

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 …

Himalayan Cedarwood Oil

Cedrus deodara
Essential Oil Balsamic Camphoraceous / Medicinal Sweet Readily Available

Rich, sweet-woody, almost balsamic odor, closely reminiscent of Atlas cedarwood oil. Presents similar cresylic-camphoraceous topnotes, but also becomes delicately sweet-woody on it…

Homalomena Rubescens Oil

Homalomena rubescens
Essential Oil Floral Pine / Coniferous Sweet Not Commercial

Sweet-woody, somewhat floral, but also harsh-pinelike odor. The odor is reminiscent of that of low grade Ho Wood Oils or of certain fractions of bois de rose oil.

Inchigrass Oil

Cymbopogon species
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Irregular / Rare

Fresh, sweet citronella-palmarosa-like odor with a tealeaf-like, rich herbaceous undertone. The latter note is quite predominant, or even unpleasant, in certain lots of the oil. So…

Indian Valerian Oil

Valeriana wallichii
Essential Oil Balsamic Camphoraceous / Medicinal Earthy / Rooty Irregular / Rare

Balsamic-woody, slightly spicy-root-like odor with a distinct note of valerian acid, more or less pronounced according to the age of the oil. The musk-like and patchouli like, camp…

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…

Juniperberry Oil

Juniperus communis
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Limited Quantities

Fresh, yet warm, rich-balsamic, woody-sweet and pine-needle-like odor.

Kaempferia Galanga Oil

Kaempferia galanga
Essential Oil Balsamic Spicy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Sweet-woody, warm, balsamic, somewhat spicy odor of great tenacity.