99 materials found
Ajowan Oil
Ptychotis ajowanPungent, herbaceous-spicy and medicinal odor, reminiscent of red Thyme. However, unlike the rich odor of red thyme, Ajowan Oil presents a sharper, more cymene-like topnote and very…
Ambra
Physeter catodonRather subtle, reminiscent of seaweed, wood, moss, with a peculiar sweet, yet very dry undertone of unequaled tenacity. There is rarely any animal note at all in a good grade of Am…
Ambrette Seed Oil
Abelmoschus moschatusRich, sweet, floral-musky, distinctly wine-like or brandy-like odor with a bouquet and roundness rarely found in any other perfume material. Has some notes in common with cypress o…
Ambrette Seeds
Hibiscus abelmoschusAngelica Root Absolute
Angelica archangelicaIntensely musky-woody, heavy, sweet, somewhat spicy, with a resemblance to Pimpinella root. The richness in odor body has some similarity to that of ambrette seed absolute, but the…
Anise Oil
Pimpinella anisumIntensely sweet and clean odor, truly reminiscent of the crushed fruit. Very common description is that of 'licorice odor'.
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…
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…
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…
Birch Bark Oil
Betula lentaSmells so strikingly similar to methyl salicylate that it is hard to justify the existence of the essential oil.
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 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.
Broom Absolute
Spartium junceumIntensely sweet, floral haylike fragrance. The deep herbaceous-coumarinic background has great tenacity. The honey-rose notes are particularly useful.
Canadian Snakeroot Oil
Asarum canadenseWarm-aromatic, woody-spicy, yet rich and sweet with a minty-gingerlike undertone, and a pronounced tealike, lasting dryout.
Capsicum
Capsicum annuumCapsicum Absolute has an interesting tobacco-like, sweet-herbaceous odor.
Carob Bean
Ceratonia siliquaFaint odor of the bean with a cheese-like, almost rancid odor due to butyric acid content. The flowers yield a concrete of mimosa-cassie type odor.
Carrot Seed Oil
Daucus carotaPeculiar dry-woody, somewhat root-like, earthy odor. The initial notes are sweet and fresh, but the tenacious undertone and dryout is very heavy, wet-earthy, fatty-oily, slightly s…
Cassie Absolute
Acacia farnesianaExtremely warm, powdery-spicy, at the same time herbaceous and floral with a deep and very tenacious cinnamic-balsamic undertone.
Castoreum
Castor canadensisWarm, 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 …
Celery Seed Oil
Apium graveolensSpicy-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 graveolensVery powerful odor and flavor, typical of the aroma of the seed: warm, fatty-spicy and rich, intensely sweet-herbal, radiant and tenacious.
Ceylon Cinnamon Bark Oil
Cinnamomum zeylanicumExtremely 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…
Clove Stem Oil
Syzygium aromaticumStrong 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…
Concentrated Lemon Oil
Citrus limonpossessing the freshness from the purified and selected monoterpenes
Cumin Absolute
Cuminum cyminumPowerful, but delicately mellow and round, green-spicy odor, very closely reminiscent of the odor of the crushed seed from which it is derived. The absolute has a striking resembla…
Cumin Oil
Cuminum cyminumExtremely powerful, diffusive, green-spicy, slightly fatty, but at the same time not sharp or pungent, almost soft and mellow. This softness is one of the main features of a true o…
Curcuma Oleoresin
Curcuma longaFaint odor reminiscent of the odor of the spice. Solvent odor should not be perceptible.