Every natural material.
Every blending opportunity.
Arctander Online transforms Steffen Arctander's legendary 1960 reference into a living, searchable database — giving indie perfumers the blending intelligence the book never could.
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The book gives you data.
We give you connections.
Arctander's Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin is the bible of natural perfumery. But a book can only show you one material at a time. Arctander Online shows you the whole network.
The blending graph
Every blending recommendation Arctander ever made is cross-referenced and clickable. Open Patchouli Oil, see every material he said it blends with, click through to any of them, and keep navigating. No book can do this.
Search the way you think
Find every balsamic, woody material used in chypre bases from France in one search. Filter by odour type, application, geographic origin, production method, or commercial availability — simultaneously.
Arctander's own classification
Arctander grouped all 523 materials into 88 odour families — his personal classification system. For the first time, you can navigate these groups, see which materials share an odour character, and discover related groups at a click.
Adulterant intelligence
Every adulterant and cutting agent Arctander named is extracted and searchable. Know what to look for before you buy. This data exists in the book — but finding it across 523 entries is impossible without a database.
See it in action
Every material page gives you structured intelligence at a glance — then lets you follow the blending graph wherever it leads.
Patchouli Oil
Pogostemon cablin
Odour type
Blends well with
Blue = linked to a full monograph. Grey = synthetic aroma chemical (Phase 2).
Applications
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Full access to every monograph, every blending relationship, every odour group.
- All 523 monographs
- Complete blending graph
- All 88 odour groups
- Adulterant data
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About Arctander Online
Steffen Arctander's Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin (1960) is the definitive reference for anyone working with natural aromatic materials. Every serious natural perfumer owns a copy. But the book's intelligence has always been locked in 523 separate pages with no way to search, cross-reference, or navigate the connections between materials.
Arctander Online extracts every field — odour descriptions, blending partners, geographic origins, production methods, adulterants, cross-references — and makes them searchable and navigable for the first time. Arctander's text is in the public domain. The database, structure, and intelligence layer are ours.
Phase 2 will add Arctander's Perfume and Flavor Chemicals volumes — approximately 3,000 synthetic aroma chemical entries — completing the only digital Arctander corpus in existence and enabling cross-collection blending intelligence.