16 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'.

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…

Chenopodium Oil

Chenopodium ambrosioides
Essential Oil Not Commercial

Citronella Oil, Java-type

Cymbopogon winterianus
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Sweet Readily Available

Fresh and sweet, revealing the high content of citronellal and geraniol + citronellol. Does not present the camphene-borneol notes characteristic of Ceylon citronella oil. The dryo…

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…

Expressed Lime Oil

Citrus aurantiifolia
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Irregular / Rare

Intensely fresh, rich and sweet, peel-like odor, perhaps more lemon-like than the odor of distilled lime oil, but also mellower and somewhat 'perfumery'. The tenacity of the fragra…

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…

Lime Oil

Citrus aurantifolia
Essential Oil Citrus Readily Available

Linaloe Seed Oil

Bursera delpechiana
Essential Oil Floral Fresh / Clean Woody Limited Quantities

Quite similar in odor type to Linaloe Wood Oil, but somewhat harsher, with a slightly bitter topnote. Present typical linalool-linalyl acetate odors with more or less pronounced te…

Linaloe Wood Oil

Bursera delpechiana
Essential Oil Floral Green / Leafy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Sweet-woody and floral, with a more or less green and oily topnote according to the quality of the oil. Very good oils are rare, and they show little or no pungent notes in the top…

North American Sassafras Oil

Sassafras albidum
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Spicy Limited Quantities

Sweet-spicy, fresh and slightly camphoraceous odor with a long-lasting, woody-floral and very sweet undertone. A short, fresh-peppery topnote is characteristic of the odor of this …

Sarsaparilla

Smilax species
Essential Oil Limited Quantities

Schinus Molle Oil

Schinus molle
Essential Oil Spicy Woody Limited Quantities

fresh, woody-peppery, warm-spicy with a somewhat sharp or dry, smoky-woody undertone. The odor becomes less pleasant upon ageing of the oil

Styrax

Liquidambar orientalis
Balsam Balsamic Resinous Sweet Limited Quantities

Asian styrax has balsamic sweetness. American (Honduras) styrax is more 'gasolinelike' (styrene-odor), covering the balsamic sweetness of the main ingredients.

Texas Cedarwood Oil

Juniperus mexicana
Essential Oil Balsamic Smoky / Tarry Sweet Readily Available

Pleasant, sweet-woody, yet somewhat tar-like or cade-like, smoky. On drying it becomes increasingly balsamic-sweet and shows great tenacity with a uniform, sweet-woody dryout. Rect…

Vanilla

Vanilla planifolia
Other Animalic Balsamic Sweet Readily Available

Extremely rich, sweet, somewhat woody and animal (castoreum-like), tobacco-like and very deep in its balsamic, sweet-spicy body-note. Actually, the odor of vanillin is not one of t…