23 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 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.

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.

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…

Dalmatian Sage Oil

Salvia officinalis
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Readily Available

Fresh and strong, warm-spicy herbaceous and camphoraceous odor, somewhat reminiscent of artemisia vulgaris oil. A peculiar sweetness, reminiscent of tansy flowers, is characteristi…

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).

Fig Leaf Absolute

Ficus carica
Absolute Green / Leafy Herbaceous Mossy Limited Quantities

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

Laurel Berry Oil

Laurus nobilis
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Spicy Historical / Obsolete

Warm camphoraceous and spicy odor, reminiscent of myrtle, juniperberry, hyssop, Comoro-basil, cajuput and similar oils.

Lavender Oil

Lavandula officinalis
Essential Oil Floral Herbaceous Sweet Readily Available

Sweet, floral-herbaceous refreshing odor with a pleasant, balsamic-woody undertone. An almost fruity-sweet topnote is of a very short life, and the entire oil is not distinguished …

Licorice Extract

Glycyrrhiza glabra
Extract Earthy / Rooty Spicy Sweet Readily Available

Sweet, mild odor somewhat different from that of the botanical starting material (the aqueous extract is often evaporated over an open fire and some caramellization of the extract …

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…

Nigella Damascena Oil

Nigella damascena
Essential Oil Fruity Sweet On Order Only

Peculiar and intensely sweet-fruity, nauseating and somewhat unpleasant odor when freshly distilled. After proper ageing shows great tenacity, very pleasant dryout of peculiar winy…

Nigella Sativa Oil

Nigella sativa
Essential Oil Spicy Not Commercial

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…

Rose Absolute Damascena

Rosa damascena
Absolute Balsamic Floral Spicy Readily Available

Extremely rich, warm, spicy-floral and very deep rose odor with a more or less pronounced honeylike undertone. Its diffusive power is only realized when diluted or used at concentr…

Rose Damascena Concrète

Rosa damascena
Concrète Floral Spicy Sweet Limited Quantities

Extremely rich, deep and sweetly floral, truly reminiscent of the red or pink rose. A peculiar sweet spiciness on a sweet-woody undertone and an immensely deep-floral and faintly h…

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 Otto

Rosa damascena
Essential Oil Floral Spicy Sweet Readily Available

Warm, deep-floral, slightly spicy and immensely rich, truly reminiscent of red roses, often with nuances in the spicy and honeylike notes.

Saffron Oil

Crocus sativus
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Floral Herbaceous Not Commercial

Most peculiar, intensely sweet, spicy, floral-aldehydic odor with a slightly fatty-herbaceous undertone. Fresh, strong odor, recalling that of the botanical material.

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…