523 materials found

Artemisia Alba Oil

Artemisia alba
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Green / Leafy Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Very 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 annua
Essential Oil Balsamic Green / Leafy Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Pleasant, 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 vulgaris
Essential Oil Balsamic Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean On Order Only

Powerful, 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 asafoetida
Oleo-gum-resin Balsamic Phenolic / Sharp Resinous Readily Available

Distinctly 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 atlantica
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Floral Sweet Readily Available

Very 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 atlantica
Resinoid Balsamic Resinous Woody On Order Only

Very 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 ovata
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Spicy Woody Limited Quantities

Strong peppery, woody-spicy, warm and dry, somewhat reminiscent of elemi, ginger, and galanga.

Australasian Sandalwood Oil

Eucaria spicata
Essential Oil Balsamic Sweet Woody Limited Quantities

Soft, 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 citriodora
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Not Commercial

Intensely 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 myrtifolia
Essential Oil Sweet Woody Not Commercial

The elimicin form has a sweet-woody smell from its main constituent trimethoxy-allylbenzene.

Balsam Fir Needle Oil

Abies balsamea
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Irregular / Rare

Peculiar 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

Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Limited Quantities

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 balsamifera
Oleoresin Balsamic Coumarinic / Hay Resinous Not Commercial

Very 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 basilicum
Essential Oil Balsamic Green / Leafy Herbaceous Irregular / Rare

Sweet-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 racemosa
Essential Oil Balsamic Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Readily Available

Fresh-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 mellifera
Absolute Coumarinic / Hay Sweet waxy Limited Quantities

Very 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

Resinoid Balsamic Sweet Vanilla / Gourmand Readily Available

sweet, balsamic-vanillin-like odor

Bergamot Oil

Citrus bergamia
Essential Oil Citrus Fruity Sweet Readily Available

Extremely 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 bergamia
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Limited Quantities

Typical '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 betle
Essential Oil Phenolic / Sharp Smoky / Tarry Limited Quantities

Distinctly 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 species
Other Readily Available

Birch Bark Oil

Betula lenta
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Minty Historical / Obsolete

Smells so strikingly similar to methyl salicylate that it is hard to justify the existence of the essential oil.

Birch Leaf-Bud Oil

Betula alba
Essential Oil Balsamic Green / Leafy Woody Limited Quantities

Pleasant woody-green, balsamic odor.

Bitter Almond Oil

Prunus amygdalus var. amara
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Sweet Limited Quantities

Strong, but sweet and clean odor, reminiscent of crushed, wet bitter almonds or of a very high grade of benzaldehyde.

Bitter Fennel Oil

Foeniculum vulgare
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Earthy / Rooty Spicy Readily Available

Somewhat sharp and warm-camphoraceous odor, initially earthy, but later on sweet, anisic and spicy.

Bitter Orange Oil

Citrus aurantium
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Irregular / Rare

Very 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 nigrum
Other Phenolic / Sharp Spicy Woody Irregular / Rare

Powerful 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 nigrum
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Resinous Spicy Readily Available

Fresh, 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 camphora
Essential Oil Balsamic Woody Limited Quantities

Weak odor, but with fair masking effect and good fixative value. Consists mainly of sesquiterpenes and sesquiterpene alcohols.

Bois de Rose Oil

Aniba rosaeodora
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Floral Spicy Readily Available

refreshing, 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…