38 materials found

Angelica Seed Oil

Angelica archangelica
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Spicy Irregular / Rare

Strong, fresh, light and peppery odor. The topnote is distinctly terpenelike, at times almost harsh in its roughness, but also quite fresh. A sweet, almost anisic undertone is quit…

Anise Oil

Pimpinella anisum
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Spicy Sweet Limited Quantities

Intensely sweet and clean odor, truly reminiscent of the crushed fruit. Very common description is that of 'licorice odor'.

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.

Cajuput Oil

Melaleuca minor
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Fruity Limited Quantities

Powerful, fresh, eucalyptuslike, camphoraceous odor. Characteristic are the almost fruity-sweet body notes and the soft tones in the dryout.

Caraway Oil

Carum carvi
Essential Oil Herbaceous Phenolic / Sharp Spicy Readily Available

Strong and peculiar odor typical of the fruit, but with a fatty-harsh undertone in crude oil. Rectified oil has stronger, less fatty odor. Characteristic initial note of nauseating…

Cassia Oil

Cinnamomum cassia
Essential Oil Balsamic Spicy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Strong, spicy, warm and woody-resinous odor with an intensely sweet, somewhat balsamic undertone.

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 …

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…

Cherry Laurel Oil

Prunus laurocerasus
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Sweet Historical / Obsolete

Strong and sweet bitter almond odor.

Chinese Eucalyptus Oil

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

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.

Cola

Sterculia acuminata
Extract Animalic Woody Readily Available

Typical amine-like or 'animal' odor of wet and pulverized cola nuts. This 'proteine' type of odor vanishes completely when cola extracts are used in acid media.

Eucalyptus Globulus Oil

Eucalyptus globulus
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Readily Available

Eucalyptus Polybractea Oil

Eucalyptus polybractea
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Sweet Readily Available

Strong but somewhat sweet-camphoraceous and fresh-cooling odor. Its dryout on a perfume blotter is distinctly different from that of a Globulus or similar oil: it is not woody-swee…

Eucalyptus Sideroxylon Oil

Eucalyptus sideroxylon
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Limited Quantities

Quite similar to Eucalyptus Globulus and E. Smithii oils.

Garlic Oil

Allium sativum
Essential Oil Herbaceous Phenolic / Sharp Limited Quantities

Extremely intense obnoxious odor, to a certain degree reminiscent of garlic, but with a predominant mercaptane-like note which masks the delicate, although strong and highly diffus…

Geranium Oil, Réunion

Pelargonium graveolens
Essential Oil Floral Fruity Green / Leafy Readily Available

Very powerful: green, leafy-rosy, with a pronounced fruity-minty undertone and a rich, long-lasting, sweet-rosy dryout. Freshly distilled oil has a peculiar, rather obnoxious topno…

Ginger Oleoresin

Zingiber officinale
Oleoresin Spicy Sweet Woody Readily Available

Warm-spicy, sweet and very aromatic-rich.

Licorice Extract

Glycyrrhiza glabra
Extract Earthy / Rooty Spicy Sweet Readily Available

Sweet, mild odor somewhat different from that of the botanical starting material (the aqueous extract is often evaporated over an open fire and some caramellization of the extract …

Lippia Carviodora Oil

Lippia carviodora
Essential Oil Herbaceous Minty Spicy Not Commercial

An odor which can hardly be described without the use of the term Caraway. Except for dill seed oil, no other essential oil is so strikingly similar to caraway as the oil from Lipp…

Melaleuca Linariifolia Oil

Melaleuca linariifolia
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Irregular / Rare

Strong camphoraceous-eucalyptus-like odor, with a warm-terpenic undertone. Much more eucalyptus-like in odor and flavor than melaleuca alternifolia, and does not recall the odor of…

Mentha Arvensis Oil

Mentha arvensis
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Minty Readily Available

Strong, fresh and somewhat bitter-sweet odor, to a certain degree reminiscent of the odor of peppermint oil. The undertone is somewhat harsh-woody and the dryout is bitter-herbaceo…

Myrrh Oil

Commiphora species
Essential Oil Balsamic Camphoraceous / Medicinal Spicy Irregular / Rare

Warm-spicy, often showing a very peculiar, sharp-balsamic, slightly medicinal top-note with a delightful "lift", free from any terebinthinate notes. The sweetness increases to a de…

Myrrh Resinoid

Commiphora myrrha
Resinoid Balsamic Oriental / Heavy Spicy Readily Available

Intensely warm, deep-spicy, balsamic-aromatic and very rich.

Niaouli Oil

Melaleuca viridiflora
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Sweet Limited Quantities

Strong, fresh, sweet-camphoraceous, but cooling odor, reminiscent of eucalyptus oil and cardamom oil, however, less spicy than the latter. The sweetness in odor is quite characteri…

North American Sassafras Oil

Sassafras albidum
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Spicy Limited Quantities

Sweet-spicy, fresh and slightly camphoraceous odor with a long-lasting, woody-floral and very sweet undertone. A short, fresh-peppery topnote is characteristic of the odor of this …

Peppermint Oil

Mentha piperita
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Minty Readily Available

Fresh, strong, somewhat grassy-minty odor with a deep balsamic-sweet undertone and a sweet, clean dryout note. The grassy topnote may disappear or fade after proper ageing of the o…

Pimpinella Absolute

Pimpinella saxifraga, Pimpinella magna
Absolute Balsamic Herbaceous Spicy Not Commercial

Very peculiar, sweet and extremely tenacious, somewhat spicy, strongly aromatic, herbaceous and woody. Odor characteristics vary considerably according to the type of solvent used …

Sarsaparilla

Smilax species
Essential Oil Limited Quantities

Spearmint Oil

Mentha spicata
Essential Oil Green / Leafy Herbaceous Spicy Readily Available

very warm, slightly green-herbaceous odor, penetrating and powerful, truly reminiscent of the odor of the crushed herb