523 materials found

Castoreum

Castor canadensis
Animal (crude) Animalic Leather Smoky / Tarry Readily Available

Warm, animal, leather-like sweet odor. A frequent 'smoky' note in castoreum is not natural but due to drying the glands over smoking fires. The 'birch-tar' note may also be due to …

Cedarleaf Oil

Thuja occidentalis
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Readily Available

Intensely sharp, but quite fresh, camphoraceous odor. Bears great resemblance to the flowering tansy herb, artemisia herb, dalmatian sage herb, etc. with a sweet undertone reminisc…

Cedrat Peel Oil

Citrus medica
Essential Oil Citrus Historical / Obsolete

Cedrat Petitgrain Oil

Citrus medica var. bajoura
Essential Oil Floral Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy On Order Only

Sweet and fresh, floral-woody, leafy "petitgrain"-type of odor, somewhat reminiscent of lemon-petitgrain oil, however, not nearly as powerful as that oil.

Cedrela Odorata Oil

Cedrela odorata
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Spicy Woody Limited Quantities

Pleasant, dry-woody and powerful odor, reminiscent of cedarwood oil, Texas and cubeb oil or clove leaf oil sesquiterpenes with an undertone like carrot seed oil, however, without t…

Celery Seed Oil

Apium graveolens
Essential Oil Spicy Sweet warm Readily Available

Spicy-warm, sweet and rich, 'soup-like', longlasting and powerful, slightly fatty, typical of the odor of the seed (fruit) but less fresh than the odor of the celery plant. One of …

Celery Seed Oleoresin

Apium graveolens
Oleoresin Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Spicy Readily Available

Very powerful odor and flavor, typical of the aroma of the seed: warm, fatty-spicy and rich, intensely sweet-herbal, radiant and tenacious.

Cestrum Nocturnum Oil

Cestrum nocturnum
Essential Oil Floral Spicy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Extremely heavy isoeugenol-like, faintly carnation-like, woody-warm, yet strongly floral odor.

Ceylon Cinnamon Bark Oil

Cinnamomum zeylanicum
Essential Oil Spicy Sweet Woody Limited Quantities

Extremely powerful, diffusive, warm-spicy, sweet and tenacious odor. The undertone and dryout notes reveal a persistent dryness which is very unique in combination with the distinc…

Ceylon Citronella Oil

Cymbopogon nardus
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Readily Available

Very peculiar, warm-woody and yet fresh, grassy and somewhat reminiscent of wet leaves. The camphene-borneol-methyleugenol complex seems to characterize the odor of Ceylon citronel…

Chamaecyparis Obtusa

Chamaecyparis obtusa
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Pine / Coniferous Spicy Limited Quantities

Root Oil: dry, woody, camphoraceous odor with a peculiar warm-sweet, almost spicy undertone. Leaf Oil: intensely strong, camphoraceous, fresh pine-like and somewhat green odor, dis…

Champaca Absolute

Michelia champaca
Absolute Floral Sweet Woody Irregular / Rare

Quite unique: delicately dry-floral, at the same time reminding one of orange flowers, ylang-ylang, carnation and tearose. There are notes which resemble those of sage clary, methy…

Chenopodium Oil

Chenopodium ambrosioides
Essential Oil Not Commercial

Cherry Laurel Oil

Prunus laurocerasus
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Sweet Historical / Obsolete

Strong and sweet bitter almond odor.

Chimonanthus Fragrans Absolute

Chimonanthus fragrans
Absolute Citrus Floral Not Commercial

Resembling jasmin, jonquil and orange peel.

Chinese Eucalyptus Oil

Cinnamomum camphora
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Readily Available

Chioranthus Spicatus

Chioranthus spicatus
Absolute Balsamic Floral Sweet Irregular / Rare

Delightfully soft, woody-floral odor with striking resemblance to boronia absolute. The topnote is somewhat dry-woody, but becomes increasingly sweet-balsamic and floral like Peru …

Cinnamon Leaf Oil

Cinnamomum zeylanicum
Essential Oil Oriental / Heavy Spicy Woody Readily Available

Warm-spicy, but rather harsh odor, lacking the rich body of the bark oil. Has some resemblance to the odor of clove leaf oil and clove stem oil.

Cistus Oil

Cistus ladanifer
Essential Oil Animalic Balsamic Spicy Limited Quantities

Very powerful and tenacious odor: warm and sweet, yet dry and reminiscent of ambra in its somewhat animal notes.

Citronella Oil, Java-type

Cymbopogon winterianus
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Sweet Readily Available

Fresh and sweet, revealing the high content of citronellal and geraniol + citronellol. Does not present the camphene-borneol notes characteristic of Ceylon citronella oil. The dryo…

Civet

Viverra civetta
Animal (crude) Animalic Musky Sweet Readily Available

typically animal-sweet, free from faecal notes, urine notes or the like. The undertone bears some resemblance to that of ambrette seed oil and of a well cured goat skin. The odor o…

Clary Sage Absolute

Salvia sclarea
Absolute Balsamic Herbaceous Sweet Limited Quantities

Extremely rich, delicately sweet, yet bitter-winy and somewhat herbaceous odor of great tenacity. The absolute has a somewhat finer, less resinous odor, more balsamic-sweet than th…

Clary Sage Oil

Salvia sclarea
Essential Oil Balsamic Herbaceous Sweet Readily Available

Sweet-herbaceous, tenacious in odor, soft and somewhat reminiscent of ambra in its bitter-sweet undertone. Apart from the initial linalylacetate—linalool notes, there is a very cha…

Clausena Anisata Oil

Clausena anisata
Essential Oil anise Spicy Not Commercial

Very similar to that of star anise oil or true anise oil.

Clavel Moena Oil

Essential Oil Spicy Woody Not Commercial

Warm-spicy, nutmeg-like, cinnamon-leaf-like odor. The undertone and the dryout are distinctly dry-woody, less spicy and it is strongly reminiscent of the odor of clove leaf sesquit…

Clove Bud Absolute

Eugenia caryophyllata
Absolute Balsamic Floral Spicy Limited Quantities

Oily-sweet, intensely rich and spicy, slightly sour-fruity and refreshing. Very closely reminiscent of dry clove buds. The absolute presents a floral and refined type of this fragr…

Clove Bud Oil

Eugenia caryophyllata
Essential Oil Fruity Spicy Sweet Readily Available

Sweet-spicy note with fruity-fresh topnote and a touch of acetic odor making it refreshing. The eugenol note is distinctly subdued, sweetened and freshened by trace materials.

Clove Leaf Oil

Eugenia caryophyllata
Essential Oil Phenolic / Sharp Spicy Woody Readily Available

Crude oil: somewhat harsh, phenolic, only slightly sweet, with a 'burnt' breadlike note, distinctly different from eugenol and clove bud oil. Woodiness and dryness are the most typ…

Clove Stem Oil

Syzygium aromaticum
Essential Oil Spicy Woody Readily Available

Strong spicy, somewhat woody, but quite pleasant odor when fairly fresh and well stored. The odor is not very different from that of eugenol (which is sweeter and less woody). Redi…

Coconut Absolute

Cocos nucifera
Absolute Fruity Green / Leafy Sweet Not Commercial

Peculiar fruity-fatty, very fresh and light, yet tenacious odor. Only upon extreme dilution (about 1.0 mg% or lower) the nutty and typical fragrance appears.