16 materials found
Anise Oil
Pimpinella anisumIntensely sweet and clean odor, truly reminiscent of the crushed fruit. Very common description is that of 'licorice odor'.
Artemisia Alba Oil
Artemisia albaVery powerful, bitter-herbaceous odor. The 'greenness' in odor type and the peculiar bitter aroma makes it interesting for chypre, fougère, 'forest' notes.
Caraway Oil
Carum carviStrong 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…
European Pennyroyal Oil
Mentha pulegiumVery fresh, strong, herbaceous-minty, but not very bitter odor (in contrast to the American type).
Fenugreek Extract
Trigonella foenum-graecumIntensely sweet, spicy, protein like, soup-like and caramellic odor from comminuted seed. The characteristic odor is a celery-like spicyness, a coumarinic-balsamic sweetness and an…
Lemon Oil
Citrus limomumVery 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…
Lemon Petitgrain Oil
Citrus limonumVery 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…
Myrtle Oil
Myrtus communisStrongly 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 aurantiumVery 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.
Orange Flower Water Absolute
Citrus aurantium var. amaraPeculiar dry-floral, musty-herbaceous odor, reminiscent of mandarin leaf oil, petitgrain oil, and, faintly, of orange flower absolute. Discolors significantly on ageing.
Petitgrain Bigarade Oil
Citrus aurantium subspecies amaraPleasant, 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…
Rose de mai concrète
Rosa centifoliaWarm, deep-floral, slightly woody-sweet, but the spicy or honeylike notes are less pronounced than those of damascena concrète.
Rosemary Oil
Rosmarinus officinalisStrong, 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…
Sandarac
Callitris quadrivalvisTurpentine-like, fresh-resinous and slightly balsamic odor. The essential oil is pale yellow or almost colorless mobile liquid.
Sweet Marjoram Oil
Origanum majoranaWarm-spicy, aromatic-camphoraceous and woody odor, reminiscent of nutmeg and cardamom. Similar in odor to Melaleuca Alternifolia.
Verbena Oil
Lippia citriodoraIntensely fresh, lemon-like odor which slowly changes into a sweet, almost fruity bodynote and fades out almost unchanged, sweet floral-fruity, slightly rosy.