22 materials found

Arnica Oil

Arnica montana
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Spicy Irregular / Rare

The oil resembles that of chamomile with a certain woody-earthy undertone. Arnica Absolute or Arnica Resinoine are intensely herbaceous-sweet, tealike, somewhat spicy, powerful and…

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.

Calamus Oil

Acorus calamus
Essential Oil Balsamic Spicy Sweet Readily Available

Warm, woody-spicy and pleasant odor with increasingly sweet afternotes and great tenacity. Good oils bear some resemblance to dried milk or sweet leather, slightly creamy-nutty. Po…

Canadian Snakeroot Oil

Asarum canadense
Essential Oil Minty Spicy Sweet Limited Quantities

Warm-aromatic, woody-spicy, yet rich and sweet with a minty-gingerlike undertone, and a pronounced tealike, lasting dryout.

Cedarleaf Oil

Thuja occidentalis
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Readily Available

Intensely sharp, but quite fresh, camphoraceous odor. Bears great resemblance to the flowering tansy herb, artemisia herb, dalmatian sage herb, etc. with a sweet undertone reminisc…

Celery Seed Oil

Apium graveolens
Essential Oil Spicy Sweet warm Readily Available

Spicy-warm, sweet and rich, 'soup-like', longlasting and powerful, slightly fatty, typical of the odor of the seed (fruit) but less fresh than the odor of the celery plant. One of …

Clary Sage Oil

Salvia sclarea
Essential Oil Balsamic Herbaceous Sweet Readily Available

Sweet-herbaceous, tenacious in odor, soft and somewhat reminiscent of ambra in its bitter-sweet undertone. Apart from the initial linalylacetate—linalool notes, there is a very cha…

Dill Weed Oil

Anethum graveolens
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Spicy Limited Quantities

Powerful and fresh, sweet-spicy, peppery and aromatic odor, reminiscent of elemi oil, spearmint oil, citrus oils, etc. with a sweet, nutmeg-like undertone.

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…

Linseed Oil Absolute

Linum usitatissimum
Absolute Animalic Marine / Seaweed On Order Only

Mild, fatty-oily odor, reminiscent of the odor of freshly expressed linseed oil (after proper ageing). The odor is also reminiscent of the slightly fishy-animal-like odor of fresh …

Magnolia

Magnolia grandiflora
Absolute Floral Sweet Not Commercial

Extremely delicate, sweet fragrance, reminiscent of rose, violet and orange flowers or, in the opinion of others, like rosa canina, the common hedgerose (dogrose, hiprose).

Myrrh Oil

Commiphora species
Essential Oil Balsamic Camphoraceous / Medicinal Spicy Irregular / Rare

Warm-spicy, often showing a very peculiar, sharp-balsamic, slightly medicinal top-note with a delightful "lift", free from any terebinthinate notes. The sweetness increases to a de…

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.

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…

Rum

Saccharum officinarum
Extract Fruity Sweet Readily Available

Spearmint Oil

Mentha spicata
Essential Oil Green / Leafy Herbaceous Spicy Readily Available

very warm, slightly green-herbaceous odor, penetrating and powerful, truly reminiscent of the odor of the crushed herb

Tansy Oil

Tanacetum vulgare
Essential Oil Herbaceous Spicy Woody Limited Quantities

Warm, almost sharp and spicy, dry and herbaceous odor.

Tobacco Leaf Absolute

Nicotiana spp.
Absolute Oriental / Heavy Tobacco Woody Limited Quantities

Strong, almost repulsive odor, faintly reminiscent of cigar tobacco. In dilution, has a typical cigar-tobacco fragrance.

Turpentine

Pinus palustris
Oleoresin Pine / Coniferous Resinous Readily Available

Wild Thyme Oil

Thymus serpyllum
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Phenolic / Sharp Irregular / Rare

Fresh, but somewhat sharp-terpeney, sometimes almost lemony notes.

Wormwood Oil

Artemisia absinthium
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Green / Leafy Herbaceous Readily Available

Intensely herbaceous-green, warm and deep, with a sharp and fresh topnote, reminiscent of cedarleaf oil. The body-note is very warm and dry-woody, long-lasting and highly interesti…