523 materials found

Peru Balsam

Myroxylon pereirae
Balsam Balsamic Sweet Vanilla / Gourmand Readily Available

The typical 'balsamic' odor: rich, sweet, cinnamic-benzoic, soft and very tenacious, showing an increasing vanillin-like note on drying out. May have a pronounced smoky note due to…

Peru Balsam Oil

Myroxylon pereirae
Essential Oil Balsamic Smoky / Tarry Spicy On Order Only

Truly balsamic, rich, deep-sweet, slightly spicy and vanillin-sweet. A distinct smoky undertone is natural, but should not be predominant, and may fade away after proper ageing of …

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…

Petitgrain Bigarade sur fleurs d'oranger

Citrus aurantium var. amara
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Irregular / Rare

Fresh and sweet-floral odor, reminiscent of orange flowers, of terpeneless petitgrain oil, and having a soft, sweet-woody, tenacious undertone. The orange-flowers seem to display t…

Petitgrain Sweet Orange

Citrus sinensis
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Irregular / Rare

Peculiar dry, almost bitter undertone after a brief and fresh topnote which is somewhat reminiscent of the topnote of petitgrain bigarade oil. The tenacity is not outstanding, and …

Picea Excelsa Oil

Picea excelsa
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Limited Quantities

Very light, fresh, balsamic-pine needle type odor. The dryout is somewhat less sweet, woody, slightly cedarlike.

Pimenta Berry Oil

Pimenta officinalis
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Spicy Readily Available

Warm-spicy, sweet odor, presenting a peculiar, but fresh and clean topnote and a long-lasting, sweet, balsamic-spicy bodynote with a tea-like undertone. There is a certain resembla…

Pimenta Berry Oleoresin

Pimenta dioica
Oleoresin Spicy Sweet Woody Limited Quantities

Pimenta Leaf Oil

Pimenta dioica
Essential Oil Spicy warm Woody Limited Quantities

Dry-woody, warm-spicy, aromatic odor, reminiscent of clove leaf oil and crude eugenol.

Pimpinella Absolute

Pimpinella saxifraga, Pimpinella magna
Absolute Balsamic Herbaceous Spicy Not Commercial

Very peculiar, sweet and extremely tenacious, somewhat spicy, strongly aromatic, herbaceous and woody. Odor characteristics vary considerably according to the type of solvent used …

Pine Oil

Pinus palustris
Essential Oil Balsamic Pine / Coniferous Resinous Readily Available

Sweet, pine-woody, somewhat balsamic-anisic odor with an increasing sweetness in its dryout, followed by a somewhat resinous-bitter undertone according to the type and grade of oil…

Pinus Leucodermis Oil

Pinus leucodermis
Essential Oil Pine / Coniferous Limited Quantities

Pinus Nigra Oil

Pinus nigra
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Limited Quantities

Pleasant, balsamic-pinelike, refreshing odor. The turpentine-notes (pinene-notes) are rather dominating, and the odor has no tenacity or even faint, pleasant dryout note.

Pinus Pumilio Oil

Pinus pumilio
Essential Oil Balsamic Pine / Coniferous Spicy Limited Quantities

Very pleasant pine-type odor: balsamic-sweet, faintly woody, also slightly spicy, reminiscent of cypress and juniperberry, with an increasingly oily-fatty, but interesting underton…

Pinus Strobus Oil

Pinus strobus
Essential Oil Pine / Coniferous Historical / Obsolete

Piper Crassipes Oil

Piper crassipes
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Not Commercial

Faint, but fresh-medicinal odor, slightly reminiscent of niaouli oil and with a dryout of a clove-terpene type odor or cedrela odorata type odor. When crushed, the fruits emit a sw…

Pluchea Sagittalis Oil

Pluchea sagittalis
Essential Oil Not Commercial

Plumeria Rubra Absolute

Plumeria rubra
Absolute Floral Fresh / Clean Sweet Irregular / Rare

Reminiscent of neroli and gardenia, tremendously sweet, yet fresh and suave, but tenacious beyond measure. More fragrant at night than daytime.

Porophyllum Lineare Oil

Porophyllum lineare
Essential Oil Irregular / Rare

Port Oxford Cedarwood Oil

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana
Essential Oil Herbaceous Pine / Coniferous Sweet Historical / Obsolete

Moderately sweet-woody, pine-oil-like, bitter fennel-like, substantially different from the odor of other cedarwood oils. Could remind of the odor of a mixture of pine oil and Virg…

Pterocarpus Oils

Pterocarpus species
Other Not Commercial

Red sandalwood wood is not fragrant and does not yield essential oil. African Rosewood is faintly fragrant but not used for distillation. Many Pterocarpus species have fragrant woo…

Rapeseed Oil

Brassica napus
Essential Oil Phenolic / Sharp Spicy Not Commercial

Very pungent, lachrymatory odor and effect upon the mucous membranes. The odor is somewhat reminiscent of horseradish.

Rectified Birch Tar Oil

Betula species
Essential Oil Leather Phenolic / Sharp Smoky / Tarry Limited Quantities

Distinctly phenolic, very penetrating and diffusive, obviously reminiscent of tar, charred wood and smoke. The most characteristic feature is the sweet-oily undertone which appears…

Reseda Absolute

Reseda odorata
Absolute Green / Leafy Herbaceous Spicy Irregular / Rare

Intensely herbaceous-green, with a sweet, watercress-like undertone, and not at all sharp. A peculiar sweetness, reminiscent of roasted chicory-root and with a spicy mellowness, fo…

Rhodium Wood Oil

Convolvulus scoparius
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Woody Historical / Obsolete

Faint, but pleasant, sweet-woody, somewhat floral odor, reminiscent of nerol, nerolidol, rhodinol and linalool.

Robinia Pseudacacia absolute

Robinia pseudacacia
Absolute Floral Spicy Sweet Not Commercial

The odor of Robinia Pseudacacia absolute is somewhat reminiscent of the absolutes of mimosa or cassie, but it has an orange flower sharpness, and a sweeter, spicier dryout than the…

Roman Chamomile Oil

Anthemis nobilis
Essential Oil Fruity Herbaceous Sweet Limited Quantities

Sweet herbaceous, somewhat fruity-warm and tealeaf-like odor. The odor is extremely diffusive but it has little tenacity.

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…

Rose de mai absolute

Rosa centifolia
Absolute Balsamic Floral Sweet Readily Available

Rich and sweet, deep-rosy, very tenacious odor. The spicy tonalities are usually less pronounced, while the honeylike notes can be described as similar to those of the damascena ab…