523 materials found
Lawang Oil
Cinnamomum culilawanWarm, rich, spicy odor. Clove-like odor when high in eugenol, changing to nutmeg-like fragrance when containing safrole behind the eugenol.
Leather
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 libaniStrong, cedarleaf-like, grassy odor (according to 50-year-old descriptions).
Lemon Aroma
Citrus limonContains the most delicate and light-aromatic parts of the fragrance and flavor of the lemon oil.
Lemongrass Oil
Cymbopogon flexuosus / Cymbopogon citratusVery 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 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…
Lemon Petitgrain, Terpeneless
Citrus limonHas 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 citratumVery 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 glabraSweet, 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 vulgarisTrue-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 candidumDelicately 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 majalisVery 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 aurantifoliaLinaloe Seed Oil
Bursera delpechianaQuite 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 delpechianaSweet-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 usitatissimumMild, 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 carviodoraAn 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 daunensisOdor reminded of tagette (marigold) and wormwood, later also of tobacco. Has a dark-foliage type of Compositae-fragrance.
Litsea Cubeba Oil
Litsea cubebaIntensely 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 flavumextremely 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 longumSomewhat 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 BrasileiroDry 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 elaiophoraFresh 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 officinaleExtremely 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 officinaleIntensely 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 officinaleVery powerful and rich, spicy-warm, fresh-aromatic, intensely sweet and "root-like" odor, suggestive of celery, angelica, licorice extract, deertongue oleoresin, etc.
Lupulin
Humulus lupulusMace Extract
Myristica fragransFresh 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 kusanoiSlightly 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…