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'.

Artemisia Alba Oil

Artemisia alba
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Green / Leafy Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Very 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 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…

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).

Fenugreek Extract

Trigonella foenum-graecum
Extract Balsamic Coumarinic / Hay Herbaceous Readily Available

Intensely 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 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…

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…

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.

Orange Flower Water Absolute

Citrus aurantium var. amara
Absolute Citrus Floral Green / Leafy Limited Quantities

Peculiar 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 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…

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…

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.

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.

Verbena Oil

Lippia citriodora
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Historical / Obsolete

Intensely fresh, lemon-like odor which slowly changes into a sweet, almost fruity bodynote and fades out almost unchanged, sweet floral-fruity, slightly rosy.