523 materials found

Rose de mai concrète

Rosa centifolia
Concrète Floral Sweet Woody Readily Available

Warm, deep-floral, slightly woody-sweet, but the spicy or honeylike notes are less pronounced than those of damascena concrète.

Rose Leaf Absolute

Rosa centifolia
Absolute Floral Green / Leafy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Intensely green-leafy, but also sweet, somewhat woody odor, truly reminiscent of the freshly crushed leaves of the rose plant.

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 Oil, Moroccan

Rosa centifolia
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Readily Available

Deep-sweet, rich and tenacious floral rose-odor. The peculiar 'spicy' undertone found in Bulgarian oil seems to be missing or slightly weaker in the Moroccan oil. The warmth is equ…

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.

Rue Oil

Ruta graveolens
Essential Oil Citrus Fruity Herbaceous Irregular / Rare

Sharp-herbaceous, distinctly fruity-orange-like, with a characteristic bitter-acrid undertone that makes the overall impression an unpleasant one.

Rum

Saccharum officinarum
Extract Fruity Sweet Readily Available

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.

Sandarac

Callitris quadrivalvis
Resinoid Balsamic Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Limited Quantities

Turpentine-like, fresh-resinous and slightly balsamic odor. The essential oil is pale yellow or almost colorless mobile liquid.

Sanna Oil

Hedychium spicatum
Essential Oil Balsamic Camphoraceous / Medicinal Spicy Irregular / Rare

Woody-spicy with a camphoraceous-fresh-woody topnote and an increasingly spicy, cinnamon type of body note of immense richness and tenacity. On dryout, it becomes again less sweet,…

Santalum Citrinum Oil

Essential Oil Balsamic Sweet Woody Limited Quantities

Very pleasant sweet-woody odor, reminiscent of sandalwood. Resembles santalol with a truly woody-balsamic undertone. Outstanding tenacity and unique uniformity of odor.

Sarsaparilla

Smilax species
Essential Oil Limited Quantities

Savin Oil

Juniperus sabina
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Phenolic / Sharp Pine / Coniferous Irregular / Rare

Quite unique, very unpleasant, nauseating but also slightly reminiscent of juniperberry oil and cypress oil. The initial unpleasant notes could remind one of the odor of wormseed o…

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.

Schinus Molle Oil

Schinus molle
Essential Oil Spicy Woody Limited Quantities

fresh, woody-peppery, warm-spicy with a somewhat sharp or dry, smoky-woody undertone. The odor becomes less pleasant upon ageing of the oil

Seaweed Absolute

Various seaweed species
Absolute Green / Leafy Herbaceous Marine / Seaweed Limited Quantities

Intensely green-herbaceous, phenolic-woody and "dry" odor type, distinctly recalling the odor of seaweed drying on a salt water beach after a heavy storm or surf.

Siam Benzoin

Styrax tonkinensis
Balsam Balsamic Sweet Vanilla / Gourmand Readily Available

Pleasant, sweet-balsamic with a distinct note of vanillin.

Siam Wood Oil

Fokiena hodginsii
Essential Oil Balsamic Resinous Woody Historical / Obsolete

Very pleasant, woody-balsamic, opopanax-cedar-like, mild and almost floral odor which tones out in a cleaner, woody note, reminiscent of the odor from rectified Texas cedar-wood oi…

Siberian Fir Needle Oil

Abies sibirica
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Balsamic Fresh / Clean Readily Available

Refreshingly balsamic, slightly fatty or oily with a powerful pine-forest odor, and a peculiar fruity-balsamic undertone.

Soy Sauce

Glycine soja
Extract Animalic Sweet Readily Available

Sweet, meat-extract-like odor and extreme pungency.

Spanish Sage Oil

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

Fresh-herbaceous, eucalyptol-camphor like odor, a rather sharp pine-like topnote and little or no sweetness on drying out.

Spanish Verbena Oil

Thymus hiemalis
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Irregular / Rare

Powerful and fresh lemonlike, herbaceous odor with a rich and sweet, somewhat sage-like undertone. Has the freshness of lemongrass oil, and the herbaceous-sweet undertone of sage c…

Spanish Wild Marjoram Oil

Thymus masticina
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Spicy Readily Available

Strong, fresh, slightly sweet-spicy, aromatic, but predominantly eucalyptus-like, camphoraceous odor.

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

Spike Lavender Oil

Lavandula latifolia
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Readily Available

Transitory camphoraceous (eucalyptus-like), fresh and herbaceous odor, reminiscent of lavandin and rosemary oils and with a somewhat dry-woody undertone.

Spikenard Oil

Nardostachys jatamansi
Essential Oil Animalic Earthy / Rooty Spicy Irregular / Rare

Heavy, sweet-woody and spicy-animal odor, reminiscent of valerian, ginger, cardamom and Atlas cedarwood oils.

Spiraea Oil

Spiraea ulmaria
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Phenolic / Sharp Sweet Not Commercial

Very strong odor; to some people quite repulsive in its sickly sweetness. Sharp and harsh, difficult to blend into ordinary perfume types.

Spruce Oil

Tsuga canadensis
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Fruity Limited Quantities

Very pleasant, balsamic-fresh odor with a peculiar sweet-oily and slightly fruity undertone. Odor characteristics can vary significantly according to origin and botanical species u…

Star Anise Oil

Illicium verum
Essential Oil Animalic Sweet Limited Quantities

Intensely sweet. Due to the high content of Anethole (up to 90/95%), star anise oil is strongly reminiscent of 'true' anise oil.

Stirlingia Latifolia Oil

Stirlingia latifolia
Essential Oil Coumarinic / Hay Floral Herbaceous Not Commercial

Strongly herbaceous, sweet and floral-haylike, not nearly as repulsively sharp or harsh as pure acetophenone.