61 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…

Beeswax Absolute

Apis mellifera
Absolute Coumarinic / Hay Sweet waxy Limited Quantities

Very mild, sweet, oily odor, with a haylike or coumarinic bodynote and a soft, waxy undertone. The odor is remotely reminiscent of good (not harsh) linseed oil with a trace of hone…

Bitter Almond Oil

Prunus amygdalus var. amara
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Sweet Limited Quantities

Strong, but sweet and clean odor, reminiscent of crushed, wet bitter almonds or of a very high grade of benzaldehyde.

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.

Cade Oil

Juniperus oxycedrus
Essential Oil Leather Phenolic / Sharp Smoky / Tarry Readily Available

Intense tar-like, smoky-phenolic odor.

Caraway Oil

Carum carvi
Essential Oil Herbaceous Phenolic / Sharp Spicy Readily Available

Strong and peculiar odor typical of the fruit, but with a fatty-harsh undertone in crude oil. Rectified oil has stronger, less fatty odor. Characteristic initial note of nauseating…

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.

Cistus Oil

Cistus ladanifer
Essential Oil Animalic Balsamic Spicy Limited Quantities

Very powerful and tenacious odor: warm and sweet, yet dry and reminiscent of ambra in its somewhat animal notes.

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…

Cumin Oil

Cuminum cyminum
Essential Oil Green / Leafy Herbaceous Spicy Readily Available

Extremely powerful, diffusive, green-spicy, slightly fatty, but at the same time not sharp or pungent, almost soft and mellow. This softness is one of the main features of a true o…

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 …

Dictam Oil

Dictamnus hispanicus
Essential Oil Animalic Fresh / Clean Herbaceous On Order Only

Very fresh, sweet and anisic odor, reminiscent of Texas goldenrod oil. The odor also resembles that of estragon but it is less green-herbal than this. There is finally some resembl…

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…

Eucalyptus Globulus Oil

Eucalyptus globulus
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Readily Available

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…

Fig Leaf Absolute

Ficus carica
Absolute Green / Leafy Herbaceous Mossy Limited Quantities

Delicately sweet-green, herbaceous and somewhat woody odor with a mossy undertone.

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).

German Chamomile Oil

Matricaria chamomilla
Essential Oil Coumarinic / Hay Fruity Herbaceous Irregular / Rare

Intensely sweet, herbaceous-coumarin-like odor with a fresh-fruity undertone. In pure and undiluted state, the sweetness and odor-intensity is almost sickening, nauseating. The dry…

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

Cistus ladaniferus
Oleoresin Animalic Balsamic Herbaceous Readily Available

Sweet, herbaceous balsamic, somewhat ambra-like and slightly animalic, rich and tenacious.

Labdanum

Cistus ladaniferus
Gum Resin Balsamic Resinous Readily Available

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.

Labdanum Resinoid

Cistus ladaniferus
Resinoid Balsamic Resinous Sweet Readily Available

Somewhat subdued labdanum odor compared to the absolute. Benzene extracts carry noticeable solvent odor. Petroleum ether extracts contain the most wanted odor principles in high co…

Laurel Leaf Oil

Laurus nobilis
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Spicy Limited Quantities

Fresh, strong but sweet, aromatic-camphoraceous, somewhat spicy-medicinal odor. The dryout notes are sweet, pleasant and slightly spicy, unlike those of eucalyptus, cajuput and, to…

Lavandin Absolute from Concrète

Lavandula × intermedia
Absolute Floral Herbaceous Sweet Readily Available

Pronounced herbaceous odor, resembling that of the flowering herb closely. In comparison to the Lavandin Oil, the absolute from concrète has a deeper sweetness and body as well as …