523 materials found
Artemisia Alba Oil
Artemisia albaVery powerful, bitter-herbaceous odor. The 'greenness' in odor type and the peculiar bitter aroma makes it interesting for chypre, fougère, 'forest' notes.
Artemisia Annua Oil
Artemisia annuaPleasant, almost balsamic-sweet, somewhat spicy odor. There is some similarity to the odor of basil oil with a fresh-green foliage note.
Artemisia Vulgaris Oil
Artemisia vulgarisPowerful, fresh-camphoraceous, somewhat green and bitter-sweet, with a cedarleaf-like topnote and a sage-rosemary-like bodynote. The dryout is very pleasant, sweet herbaceous and t…
Asafoetida
Ferula asafoetidaDistinctly alliaceous odor with garlic-onion-like topnote, beneath which is an immensely rich and sweet-balsamic body of highly interesting type. The dryout reveals some vanillin o…
Atlas Cedarwood Oil
Cedrus atlanticaVery peculiar and not exactly pleasant when undiluted: slightly camphoraceous-cresylic with a sweet and tenacious woody undertone, reminiscent of cassie and mimosa. However, it doe…
Atlas Cedarwood Resinoid
Cedrus atlanticaVery true-to-nature fragrance without the camphoraceous-cresylic, or ketonic-sharp topnote found in the essential oil. May carry some solvent odor (benzene) due to tremendous fixat…
Atractylis Oil
Atractylis ovataStrong peppery, woody-spicy, warm and dry, somewhat reminiscent of elemi, ginger, and galanga.
Australasian Sandalwood Oil
Eucaria spicataSoft, woody, extremely tenacious and somewhat balsamic in its delicate sweetness. Its topnote is distinctly different from that of the East Indian sandalwood oil, not sweet but rat…
Backhousia Citriodora Oil
Backhousia citriodoraIntensely fresh lemon-like odor with a pleasant sweet-green undertone. Much cleaner and fresher than Lemongrass Oil, with no grassy-fatty or harsh notes. The amylacetate-like fruit…
Backhousia Myrtifolia Oil
Backhousia myrtifoliaThe elimicin form has a sweet-woody smell from its main constituent trimethoxy-allylbenzene.
Balsam Fir Needle Oil
Abies balsameaPeculiar oily-balsamic, somewhat resinous, but also fresh and sweet odor, resembling the odor of spruce oil or pinus pumilio oil. Equal in sweetness to pinus pumilio oil, but poore…
Balsamite Oil
Very powerful, fresh-herbaceous and somewhat medicinal odor. The topnote bears resemblance to Evoulimba Oil or wild marjoram, pennyroyal terpenes, light fractions of pine oil. The …
Balsam Poplar
Populus balsamiferaVery sweet balsamic coumarinic-cinnamic odor, with a peculiar undertone reminiscent of labdanum extracts. There is a distinct note in alcoholic extracts, reminding one of hop absol…
Basil Oil
Ocimum basilicumSweet-spicy, slightly green, fresh, with a faint balsamic woody undertone and a lasting sweetness. The exotic type is somewhat coarse-herbaceous, slightly camphoraceous in the init…
Bay Leaf Oil
Pimenta racemosaFresh-spicy, somewhat medicinal, but it has a lasting, sweet-balsamic undertone. The odor of this oil is quite obnoxious to some people, sickly sweet, nauseating. To others, it is …
Beeswax Absolute
Apis melliferaVery mild, sweet, oily odor, with a haylike or coumarinic bodynote and a soft, waxy undertone. The odor is remotely reminiscent of good (not harsh) linseed oil with a trace of hone…
Benzoin
sweet, balsamic-vanillin-like odor
Bergamot Oil
Citrus bergamiaExtremely rich, sweet-fruity initial odor. Although the characteristics of this topnote remain perceptible in good oils, it is followed by a still more characteristic oily-herbaceo…
Bergamot-Petitgrain Oil
Citrus bergamiaTypical 'petitgrain' odor: bitter-fresh, yet with a pronounced sweet-woody background. Strong resemblance to the better grades of South American petitgrain oil, although with an em…
Betel Oil
Piper betleDistinctly phenolic, almost tar-like or 'smoky'. Great deal of resemblance to the odor of maté-leaves (or maté absolute) and to certain types of Chinese tea.
Birch
Betula speciesBirch Bark Oil
Betula lentaSmells so strikingly similar to methyl salicylate that it is hard to justify the existence of the essential oil.
Birch Leaf-Bud Oil
Betula albaPleasant woody-green, balsamic odor.
Bitter Almond Oil
Prunus amygdalus var. amaraStrong, but sweet and clean odor, reminiscent of crushed, wet bitter almonds or of a very high grade of benzaldehyde.
Bitter Fennel Oil
Foeniculum vulgareSomewhat sharp and warm-camphoraceous odor, initially earthy, but later on sweet, anisic and spicy.
Bitter Orange Oil
Citrus aurantiumVery peculiar, fresh and yet 'bitter' in the sense of 'dry', but with a rich and lasting, sweet undertone. There are notes which remind of bergamot, grapefruit and sweet orange, bu…
Black Currant materials
Ribes nigrumPowerful spicy-woody odor with slightly phenolic undertone and not outstanding tenacity (absolute). Distinctly terpenic odor reminiscent of terpenes in nutmeg, neroli, basil, or ma…
Black Pepper Oil
Piper nigrumFresh, dry-woody, warm-spicy, reminiscent not only of the odor of dried black pepper, but also of elemi, cubeb and other essential oils of high terpene-sesquiterpene content.
Blue Camphor Oil
Cinnamomum camphoraWeak odor, but with fair masking effect and good fixative value. Consists mainly of sesquiterpenes and sesquiterpene alcohols.
Bois de Rose Oil
Aniba rosaeodorarefreshing, sweet-woody, somewhat floral-spicy odor. The topnote varies considerably with the origin and quality of the oil. It is usually somewhat camphoraceous-peppery, reminisce…