41 materials found

Agleia Odorata Oil

Agleia odorata
Essential Oil Not Commercial

Ambra

Physeter catodon
Animal (crude) Marine / Seaweed Mossy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Rather subtle, reminiscent of seaweed, wood, moss, with a peculiar sweet, yet very dry undertone of unequaled tenacity. There is rarely any animal note at all in a good grade of Am…

Ambrette Seeds

Hibiscus abelmoschus
Other Limited Quantities

Artabotrys Odoratissimus

Artabotrys odoratissimus
Other Floral Not Commercial

Very fragrant flowers which may possibly be confused with cananga flowers.

Artabotrys Suaveolens Oil

Artabotrys suaveolens
Essential Oil Not Commercial

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…

Black Pepper Oil

Piper nigrum
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Resinous Spicy Readily Available

Fresh, dry-woody, warm-spicy, reminiscent not only of the odor of dried black pepper, but also of elemi, cubeb and other essential oils of high terpene-sesquiterpene content.

Cajuput Oil

Melaleuca minor
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Fruity Limited Quantities

Powerful, fresh, eucalyptuslike, camphoraceous odor. Characteristic are the almost fruity-sweet body notes and the soft tones in the dryout.

Cananga Oil

Cananga odorata
Essential Oil Balsamic Floral Leather Readily Available

Sweet-floral, balsamic and tenacious odor. The initial notes are woody-leathery with a fresh-floral undertone, a characteristic combination. The odor type is much "heavier" than th…

Capsicum

Capsicum annuum
Oleoresin Herbaceous Spicy Tobacco Readily Available

Capsicum Absolute has an interesting tobacco-like, sweet-herbaceous odor.

Ceylon Cinnamon Bark Oil

Cinnamomum zeylanicum
Essential Oil Spicy Sweet Woody Limited Quantities

Extremely powerful, diffusive, warm-spicy, sweet and tenacious odor. The undertone and dryout notes reveal a persistent dryness which is very unique in combination with the distinc…

Champaca Absolute

Michelia champaca
Absolute Floral Sweet Woody Irregular / Rare

Quite unique: delicately dry-floral, at the same time reminding one of orange flowers, ylang-ylang, carnation and tearose. There are notes which resemble those of sage clary, methy…

Chenopodium Oil

Chenopodium ambrosioides
Essential Oil Not Commercial

Cinnamon Leaf Oil

Cinnamomum zeylanicum
Essential Oil Oriental / Heavy Spicy Woody Readily Available

Warm-spicy, but rather harsh odor, lacking the rich body of the bark oil. Has some resemblance to the odor of clove leaf oil and clove stem oil.

Civet

Viverra civetta
Animal (crude) Animalic Musky Sweet Readily Available

typically animal-sweet, free from faecal notes, urine notes or the like. The undertone bears some resemblance to that of ambrette seed oil and of a well cured goat skin. The odor o…

Clausena Anisata Oil

Clausena anisata
Essential Oil anise Spicy Not Commercial

Very similar to that of star anise oil or true anise oil.

Cubeb Oil

Piper cubeba
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Spicy Woody Limited Quantities

Very dry-woody, but simultaneously warm-camphoraceous, spicy-peppery. Should be free from the very light pepper-like characteristic found in black pepper and elemi oils, and should…

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…

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…

Eucalyptus Citriodora Oil

Eucalyptus citriodora
Essential Oil Balsamic Citrus Floral Readily Available

Strong and very fresh, rosy-citronella-like odor and a sweet, balsamic-floral dryout note.

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…

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 …

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.

Huon Pine Wood Oil

Dacrydium franklinii
Essential Oil Herbaceous Spicy Woody Historical / Obsolete

Faintly sweet, woody-spicy and somewhat bitter odor, reminiscent of cedarwood, Texas. Sharp, cedar-like note with a rich, tea-like, herbaceous-woody undertone.

Kaempferia Galanga Oil

Kaempferia galanga
Essential Oil Balsamic Spicy Sweet Irregular / Rare

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

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…

Long Pepper Oil

Piper longum
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Spicy Woody Not Commercial

Somewhat reminiscent of the odor of various "false" cubeb oils: warm and faintly aromatic, somewhat woody and cineole-lemon-like. Complete absence of "light" or fresh-peppery topno…