523 materials found

Lawang Oil

Cinnamomum culilawan
Essential Oil Spicy Sweet Woody Irregular / Rare

Warm, rich, spicy odor. Clove-like odor when high in eugenol, changing to nutmeg-like fragrance when containing safrole behind the eugenol.

Leather

Other Animalic Leather Phenolic / Sharp Not Commercial

Originally derived from untanned leather, but has evolved to describe tanning and processing materials. Associated with natural tars used as masking odors during tanning process, w…

Lebanon Cedarwood Oil

Cedrus libani
Essential Oil Green / Leafy Woody Historical / Obsolete

Strong, cedarleaf-like, grassy odor (according to 50-year-old descriptions).

Lemon Aroma

Citrus limon
Aroma Distillate Citrus Fresh / Clean Readily Available

Contains the most delicate and light-aromatic parts of the fragrance and flavor of the lemon oil.

Lemongrass Oil

Cymbopogon flexuosus / Cymbopogon citratus
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Readily Available

Very strong, fresh-grassy lemon-type, herbaceous or tea-like odor. West Indian type has an earthy undertone reminiscent of Ceylon citronella oil, while East Indian type smells swee…

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…

Lemon Petitgrain, Terpeneless

Citrus limon
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Not Commercial

Has an unequalled freshness and an enormously rich sweetness; its power will surprise most first-users. Shows tenacity in high-class colognes.

Leptospermum Citratum Oil

Leptospermum citratum
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Very strong, fresh, sweet, yet somewhat sharp or pungent odor, reminiscent of lemongrass, lemon petitgrain and Java citronella oils in a sweet, well-balanced mixture. The power and…

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 …

Lilac

Syringa vulgaris
Absolute Floral Powdery Sweet Not Commercial

True-to-nature lilac absolute has not been successfully produced. Existing natural extracts are inferior to artificial bases in odor effect and power. Natural lilac flowers have ex…

Lily Absolute

Lilium candidum
Absolute Balsamic Floral Fruity On Order Only

Delicately floral with a pronounced oily-waxy topnote. The balsamic-sweet body is reminiscent of narcissus and boronia, also faintly of karo-karoundé. Less green in odor than these…

Lily of the Valley Absolute

Convallaria majalis
Absolute Floral Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Irregular / Rare

Very pleasantly fragrant, with a delicate floral quality and a distinct touch of greenness, surrounded by a fresh, rosy-lemony body note. However, the entire bouquet is far from th…

Lime Oil

Citrus aurantifolia
Essential Oil Citrus Readily Available

Linaloe Seed Oil

Bursera delpechiana
Essential Oil Floral Fresh / Clean Woody Limited Quantities

Quite similar in odor type to Linaloe Wood Oil, but somewhat harsher, with a slightly bitter topnote. Present typical linalool-linalyl acetate odors with more or less pronounced te…

Linaloe Wood Oil

Bursera delpechiana
Essential Oil Floral Green / Leafy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Sweet-woody and floral, with a more or less green and oily topnote according to the quality of the oil. Very good oils are rare, and they show little or no pungent notes in the top…

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 …

Lippia Carviodora Oil

Lippia carviodora
Essential Oil Herbaceous Minty Spicy Not Commercial

An odor which can hardly be described without the use of the term Caraway. Except for dill seed oil, no other essential oil is so strikingly similar to caraway as the oil from Lipp…

Lippia Daunensis Oil

Lippia daunensis
Essential Oil Green / Leafy Herbaceous Tobacco Not Commercial

Odor reminded of tagette (marigold) and wormwood, later also of tobacco. Has a dark-foliage type of Compositae-fragrance.

Litsea Cubeba Oil

Litsea cubeba
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Fruity Irregular / Rare

Intensely lemon-like, fresh and sweet odor, with a soft and sweet-fruity, uniform dryout. Few or no 'fatty-grassy' methyl heptenone notes detectable.

Longoza Absolute

Hedychium flavum
Absolute Floral Fruity Spicy Irregular / Rare

extremely rich, sweet-floral, deep-fruity-honey-like, with a peculiar spicy and vanilla-tuberose-like undertone. The green-floral, lily-like note in the odor of longoza absolute is…

Long Pepper Oil

Piper longum
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Spicy Woody Not Commercial

Somewhat reminiscent of the odor of various "false" cubeb oils: warm and faintly aromatic, somewhat woody and cineole-lemon-like. Complete absence of "light" or fresh-peppery topno…

Louro Brasileiro Oil

Louro Brasileiro
Essential Oil Green / Leafy Spicy Woody Limited Quantities

Dry and woody with a brief, oily-green, almost cuminic topnote. The dryout of this tenacious odor is faintly cedar-cubeb-like. Can be used as a blender in general, and contributes …

Louro Nhamuy Oil

Nectandra elaiophora
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Not Commercial

Fresh and strongly terpene-like, sweet odor. Little or no resemblance to true bois de rose oil, but has much in common with petitgrain monoterpenes and foreruns. Sweet, bitter-leaf…

Lovage Herb Oil

Levisticum officinale
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Extremely diffusive odor. Initial notes resemble lovage root oil, celery seed oil and mentha citrata oil. Undertone and dryout notes are extremely sweet-aromatic, sweet-floral, rem…

Lovage Oleoresin

Levisticum officinale
Oleoresin Herbaceous Musky Spicy Limited Quantities

Intensely sweet, rich and spicy-aromatic, warm odor, reminiscent of celery, angelica, tonka, etc., with a slightly musky-woody undertone. Much "heavier" in type than the essential …

Lovage Root Oil

Levisticum officinale
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Spicy Limited Quantities

Very powerful and rich, spicy-warm, fresh-aromatic, intensely sweet and "root-like" odor, suggestive of celery, angelica, licorice extract, deertongue oleoresin, etc.

Lupulin

Humulus lupulus
Extract Herbaceous Spicy Readily Available

Mace Extract

Myristica fragrans
Extract Balsamic Spicy Sweet Limited Quantities

Fresh and spicy with a warm, rich and almost balsamic undertone. No sharp or pungent terpene-like notes or rubber-like topnote such as can be experienced with nutmeg oil.

Machilus Wood Oil

Machilus kusanoi
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Spicy Tobacco Limited Quantities

Slightly spicy-woody, tobacco-like or cigarbox-like, somewhat earthy, mild, but tenacious. Some resemblance to the odor of araucaria, guaiacwood, atractylis, but milder and less pe…