56 materials found

Lemon Petitgrain Oil

Citrus limonum
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Limited Quantities

Very strong, fresh odor with a distinct bitter undertone, at times woody, in poorer oils grassy. The dryout should be very rich and sweet, slightly floral-fruity. Particular bitter…

Mastic

Pistacia lentiscus
Oleo-gum-resin Balsamic Fresh / Clean Resinous Limited Quantities

Faint, balsamic-turpentine-like odor (dry mastic). Oil: turpentine-like, fresh-balsamic odor. Resinoid: bitter-woody, natural undertone with good fixation.

Moroccan Chamomile Oil

Ormenis multicaulis
Essential Oil Balsamic Camphoraceous / Medicinal Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Fresh-herbaceous, slightly camphoraceous, but soon changes into a sweet, cistus-like and rich-balsamic undertone which is very tenacious and pleasant, almost ambra-like.

Myrtle Oil

Myrtus communis
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Readily Available

Strongly camphoraceous-spicy, but also sweet-herbaceous and fresh body-notes. The better oils, e.g. Tunisian and Corsican myrtle oils, are very fresh and strong in topnotes, and ye…

Neroli Oil

Citrus aurantium
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Sweet Irregular / Rare

Very powerful, light and refreshing, floral with a peculiar sweet-terpeney topnote, but its tenacity is rather poor. This oil is primarily a 'top-note' material in perfumery.

Oakmoss

Evernia prunastri
Absolute Earthy / Rooty Mossy Woody Readily Available

Oakmoss Concrète

Evernia prunastri
Concrète Earthy / Rooty Marine / Seaweed Mossy Readily Available

Phenolic-woody, slightly tar-like but delicate and pleasant odor, reminiscent of seashore, forest, bark, wood, green foliage and tannery. Petroleum ether extract is richer, more in…

Orange Flower Concrete

Citrus aurantium subsp. amara
Concrète Floral Sweet Woody Readily Available

Extremely strong, floral, deep-sweet, with a peculiar woody-breadcrust-like undertone and great tenacity in floral notes. In high dilution, it is strikingly reminiscent of the odor…

Origanum Oil

Thymus capitatus
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Herbaceous Phenolic / Sharp Readily Available

Strong, tar-like, herbaceous, but very refreshing odor. The topnote is slightly green-camphoraceous, herbaceous, and the body is rich, dry-woody, somewhat reminiscent of cade and p…

Orris Concrète Oil

Iris pallida
Essential Oil Floral Fruity Sweet Limited Quantities

Woody, fatty-oily but distinctly violet-like odor, with a fruity undertone, sweet-floral, warm and tenacious. Melts at about body temperature.

Orris Resinoid

Iris pallida
Resinoid Sweet Tobacco Woody Readily Available

Deep-sweet, slightly woody-tobacco-like odor with winy topnote and sweet, root-like undertone.

Peppermint Oil

Mentha piperita
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Minty Readily Available

Fresh, strong, somewhat grassy-minty odor with a deep balsamic-sweet undertone and a sweet, clean dryout note. The grassy topnote may disappear or fade after proper ageing of the o…

Petitgrain Bigarade Oil

Citrus aurantium subspecies amara
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Limited Quantities

Pleasant, fresh-floral, sweet odor, reminiscent of orange flowers with a slightly woody-herbaceous undertone and very faint, but sweet-floral dryout notes. The bitter topnote is po…

Rhodium Wood Oil

Convolvulus scoparius
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Woody Historical / Obsolete

Faint, but pleasant, sweet-woody, somewhat floral odor, reminiscent of nerol, nerolidol, rhodinol and linalool.

Rose de mai absolute

Rosa centifolia
Absolute Balsamic Floral Sweet Readily Available

Rich and sweet, deep-rosy, very tenacious odor. The spicy tonalities are usually less pronounced, while the honeylike notes can be described as similar to those of the damascena ab…

Rose de mai concrète

Rosa centifolia
Concrète Floral Sweet Woody Readily Available

Warm, deep-floral, slightly woody-sweet, but the spicy or honeylike notes are less pronounced than those of damascena concrète.

Rosemary Oil

Rosmarinus officinalis
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Minty Readily Available

Strong, fresh, woody-herbaceous, somewhat minty-forestlike odor. The "high" fresh notes vanish quickly, yielding to a clean, woody-balsamic bodynote which tones out in a dry-herbac…

Rose Oil, Moroccan

Rosa centifolia
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Readily Available

Deep-sweet, rich and tenacious floral rose-odor. The peculiar 'spicy' undertone found in Bulgarian oil seems to be missing or slightly weaker in the Moroccan oil. The warmth is equ…

Rue Oil

Ruta graveolens
Essential Oil Citrus Fruity Herbaceous Irregular / Rare

Sharp-herbaceous, distinctly fruity-orange-like, with a characteristic bitter-acrid undertone that makes the overall impression an unpleasant one.

Sandarac

Callitris quadrivalvis
Resinoid Balsamic Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Limited Quantities

Turpentine-like, fresh-resinous and slightly balsamic odor. The essential oil is pale yellow or almost colorless mobile liquid.

Savory Oil

Satureja hortensis, Satureja montana
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Herbaceous Phenolic / Sharp Limited Quantities

Fresh medicinal-spicy odor, reminiscent of sage and thyme, but with a sharpness recalling that of cumin oil, although not distinctly green. The dryout is rather phenolic-harsh.

Sweet Marjoram Oil

Origanum majorana
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Herbaceous Spicy Limited Quantities

Warm-spicy, aromatic-camphoraceous and woody odor, reminiscent of nutmeg and cardamom. Similar in odor to Melaleuca Alternifolia.

Thyme Oil

Thymus vulgaris
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Herbaceous Spicy Readily Available

Rich and powerful, sweet, and warm-herbaceous in odor, somewhat spicy and distinctly aromatic. There should be no bitter-phenolic, cade-like or tar-like notes detectable, but there…

Treemoss Absolute

Absolute Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Marine / Seaweed Readily Available

Woody, dry, forest-like or seaweed-like, herbaceous-green and of great tenacity. Presents the earthy-woody, dry forest notes and part of the leather-like notes of true oakmoss. But…

Treemoss Concrète

Evernia furfuracea, Usnea barbata
Concrète Earthy / Rooty Mossy Smoky / Tarry Readily Available

More woody and tar-like than oakmoss extract, usually lacking the delicate topnote and fresh seashore- or seaweed-like note which is characteristic of true oakmoss.

Tuberose Absolute

Polyanthes tuberosa
Absolute Floral Oriental / Heavy Spicy Irregular / Rare

Extremely heavy-sweet, floral-honey-like with a distinct oily-fatty undertone (from pommade). From concrète: heavy floral, almost nauseatingly sweet, heavy and somewhat spicy odor,…