76 materials found

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'.

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…

Bergamot Oil

Citrus bergamia
Essential Oil Citrus Fruity Sweet Readily Available

Extremely rich, sweet-fruity initial odor. Although the characteristics of this topnote remain perceptible in good oils, it is followed by a still more characteristic oily-herbaceo…

Bergamot-Petitgrain Oil

Citrus bergamia
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Limited Quantities

Typical 'petitgrain' odor: bitter-fresh, yet with a pronounced sweet-woody background. Strong resemblance to the better grades of South American petitgrain oil, although with an em…

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…

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.

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…

Carob Bean

Ceratonia siliqua
Extract Animalic Fruity Sweet Readily Available

Faint odor of the bean with a cheese-like, almost rancid odor due to butyric acid content. The flowers yield a concrete of mimosa-cassie type odor.

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.

Cedrat Peel Oil

Citrus medica
Essential Oil Citrus Historical / Obsolete

Cherry Laurel Oil

Prunus laurocerasus
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Sweet Historical / Obsolete

Strong and sweet bitter almond odor.

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 …

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.

Distilled Sweet Orange Oil

Citrus sinensis
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Sweet Readily Available

Fresh, sweet, not very rich odor, very poor in tenacity. Only freshly produced or well preserved oils have fresh odors. Distilled oils become rancid or oxidized more quickly than e…

European Pennyroyal Oil

Mentha pulegium
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Minty Limited Quantities

Very fresh, strong, herbaceous-minty, but not very bitter odor (in contrast to the American type).

Everlasting Absolute

Helichrysum angustifolium
Absolute Coumarinic / Hay Floral Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Intensely sweet-herbaceous, coumarinic, honeylike, slightly woody-floral with a peculiar licorice-like undertone. The heavy and fruity sweetness is sometimes compared to that of bl…

Geranium

Pelargonium species
Essential Oil Readily Available

Geranium Concrète

Pelargonium graveolens
Concrète Earthy / Rooty Floral Green / Leafy Readily Available

Intensely earthy herbaceous, somewhat sharp-rosy, foliage-green odor and great tenacity.

Geranium Oil

Pelargonium graveolens
Essential Oil Floral Sweet 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).

Helichrysum Oil

Helichrysum angustifolium
Essential Oil Balsamic Floral Fruity Readily Available

Powerful and diffusive, but pleasant and rich, natural odor. The topnote has certain features in common with those of the extracted material (everlasting absolute), and these topno…

Hyssop Oil

Hyssopus officinalis
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Herbaceous Spicy Limited Quantities

Powerful, somewhat sharp, but sweet-camphoraceous odor, and with a warm-aromatic, spicy undertone.

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.

Labdanum Absolute from Concrète

Cistus ladaniferus
Absolute Balsamic Herbaceous Musky Limited Quantities

Deep, sweet-balsamic, faintly but persistently herbaceous with an ambra-like, rich undertone. The latter is characteristic and rarely found in other perfume materials.