12 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 …

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…

Cedrela Odorata Oil

Cedrela odorata
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Spicy Woody Limited Quantities

Pleasant, dry-woody and powerful odor, reminiscent of cedarwood oil, Texas and cubeb oil or clove leaf oil sesquiterpenes with an undertone like carrot seed oil, however, without t…

Curacao Peel Oil

Citrus aurantium var. curassaviensis
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Fruity Not Commercial

Powerful, fresh and rich, grapelike citrus-peel odor reminiscent of expressed lime oil, petitgrain oil and bitter orange oil, however, the odor of the curacao oil is slightly sweet…

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.

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 …

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…

Lemon Oil

Citrus limomum
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Fruity Readily Available

Very light, fresh and sweet odor, truly reminiscent of the ripe peel. No turpentine-like, harsh-terpene notes should be detectable on a perfume blotter. Good oils retain their fres…

Pimenta Berry Oil

Pimenta officinalis
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Spicy Readily Available

Warm-spicy, sweet odor, presenting a peculiar, but fresh and clean topnote and a long-lasting, sweet, balsamic-spicy bodynote with a tea-like undertone. There is a certain resembla…

Pimenta Leaf Oil

Pimenta dioica
Essential Oil Spicy warm Woody Limited Quantities

Dry-woody, warm-spicy, aromatic odor, reminiscent of clove leaf oil and crude eugenol.

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…