144 materials found

Ocimum Canum Oil

Ocimum canum
Essential Oil Balsamic Fruity Sweet Irregular / Rare

Intensely sweet, woody-balsamic odor with a rich and tenacious, fruity-balsamic body-note. The topnotes can be more or less coarse, but the dryout is usually very sweet, soft and p…

Olibanum

Boswellia species
Oleo-gum-resin Balsamic Resinous Readily Available

Olibanum Absolute

Boswellia species
Absolute Balsamic Fruity Green / Leafy Limited Quantities

Fresh balsamic, yet dry and resinous, slightly green odor with a typical, fruity-green topnote and great tenacity. The oily-green topnote can remind one of unripe apples or certain…

Olibanum Oil

Boswellia species
Essential Oil Balsamic Citrus Fresh / Clean Readily Available

Strongly diffusive, fresh-terpeney, almost green-lemon-like or reminiscent of green, unripe apples (peel), but not terebinthinate. A certain pepperiness is mellowed with a rich, sw…

Olibanum Resinoid

Boswellia species
Resinoid Balsamic Oriental / Heavy Resinous Readily Available

Excellent odor, peculiar fixative character (see odor description under Olibanum Oil and Absolute).

Opopanax

Commiphora erythraea var. glabrascens
Oleo-gum-resin Animalic Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Irregular / Rare

Sweet-aromatic, reminiscent of spicy soups (a faint resemblance to celery or lovage), a sweet-woody undertone and a peculiar, animal-like, also sweet and root-like note. Although t…

Opopanax Oil

Essential Oil Balsamic Resinous Spicy Readily Available

Intensely sweet, balsamic, spicy, warm, yet fresh odor, somewhat reminiscent of wine residue (emptied sherry-wine glass). The vegetable-soup-like, slightly animal-sweet odor is ent…

Opopanax Resinoid

Resinoid Balsamic Oriental / Heavy Powdery Readily Available

Warm, powdery, Oriental and spicy effect

Oregon Balsam

Pseudotsuga taxifolia
Oleoresin Balsamic Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Limited Quantities

Pleasant, fresh, pine-type odor. The 'peppery' fresh note of Canada balsam seems to be missing in the Oregon balsam.

Patchouli Oil

Pogostemon cablin
Essential Oil Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Readily Available

Extremely rich, sweet-herbaceous, aromatic-spicy and woody-balsamic odor. An almost wine-like, ethereal-floral sweetness in the initial notes is characteristic of good oils. The od…

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…

Peru Balsam

Myroxylon pereirae
Balsam Balsamic Sweet Vanilla / Gourmand Readily Available

The typical 'balsamic' odor: rich, sweet, cinnamic-benzoic, soft and very tenacious, showing an increasing vanillin-like note on drying out. May have a pronounced smoky note due to…

Peru Balsam Oil

Myroxylon pereirae
Essential Oil Balsamic Smoky / Tarry Spicy On Order Only

Truly balsamic, rich, deep-sweet, slightly spicy and vanillin-sweet. A distinct smoky undertone is natural, but should not be predominant, and may fade away after proper ageing of …

Picea Excelsa Oil

Picea excelsa
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Limited Quantities

Very light, fresh, balsamic-pine needle type odor. The dryout is somewhat less sweet, woody, slightly cedarlike.

Pimenta Berry Oil

Pimenta officinalis
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Spicy Readily Available

Warm-spicy, sweet odor, presenting a peculiar, but fresh and clean topnote and a long-lasting, sweet, balsamic-spicy bodynote with a tea-like undertone. There is a certain resembla…

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 …

Pine Oil

Pinus palustris
Essential Oil Balsamic Pine / Coniferous Resinous Readily Available

Sweet, pine-woody, somewhat balsamic-anisic odor with an increasing sweetness in its dryout, followed by a somewhat resinous-bitter undertone according to the type and grade of oil…

Pinus Nigra Oil

Pinus nigra
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Limited Quantities

Pleasant, balsamic-pinelike, refreshing odor. The turpentine-notes (pinene-notes) are rather dominating, and the odor has no tenacity or even faint, pleasant dryout note.

Pinus Pumilio Oil

Pinus pumilio
Essential Oil Balsamic Pine / Coniferous Spicy Limited Quantities

Very pleasant pine-type odor: balsamic-sweet, faintly woody, also slightly spicy, reminiscent of cypress and juniperberry, with an increasingly oily-fatty, but interesting underton…

Rose Absolute Damascena

Rosa damascena
Absolute Balsamic Floral Spicy Readily Available

Extremely rich, warm, spicy-floral and very deep rose odor with a more or less pronounced honeylike undertone. Its diffusive power is only realized when diluted or used at concentr…

Rose de mai absolute

Rosa centifolia
Absolute Balsamic Floral Sweet Readily Available

Rich and sweet, deep-rosy, very tenacious odor. The spicy tonalities are usually less pronounced, while the honeylike notes can be described as similar to those of the damascena ab…

Sandarac

Callitris quadrivalvis
Resinoid Balsamic Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Limited Quantities

Turpentine-like, fresh-resinous and slightly balsamic odor. The essential oil is pale yellow or almost colorless mobile liquid.

Sanna Oil

Hedychium spicatum
Essential Oil Balsamic Camphoraceous / Medicinal Spicy Irregular / Rare

Woody-spicy with a camphoraceous-fresh-woody topnote and an increasingly spicy, cinnamon type of body note of immense richness and tenacity. On dryout, it becomes again less sweet,…

Santalum Citrinum Oil

Essential Oil Balsamic Sweet Woody Limited Quantities

Very pleasant sweet-woody odor, reminiscent of sandalwood. Resembles santalol with a truly woody-balsamic undertone. Outstanding tenacity and unique uniformity of odor.

Siam Benzoin

Styrax tonkinensis
Balsam Balsamic Sweet Vanilla / Gourmand Readily Available

Pleasant, sweet-balsamic with a distinct note of vanillin.

Siam Wood Oil

Fokiena hodginsii
Essential Oil Balsamic Resinous Woody Historical / Obsolete

Very pleasant, woody-balsamic, opopanax-cedar-like, mild and almost floral odor which tones out in a cleaner, woody note, reminiscent of the odor from rectified Texas cedar-wood oi…

Siberian Fir Needle Oil

Abies sibirica
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Balsamic Fresh / Clean Readily Available

Refreshingly balsamic, slightly fatty or oily with a powerful pine-forest odor, and a peculiar fruity-balsamic undertone.

Spruce Oil

Tsuga canadensis
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Fruity Limited Quantities

Very pleasant, balsamic-fresh odor with a peculiar sweet-oily and slightly fruity undertone. Odor characteristics can vary significantly according to origin and botanical species u…

Styrax

Liquidambar orientalis
Balsam Balsamic Resinous Sweet Limited Quantities

Asian styrax has balsamic sweetness. American (Honduras) styrax is more 'gasolinelike' (styrene-odor), covering the balsamic sweetness of the main ingredients.

Styrax Oil

Essential Oil Balsamic Floral Spicy Readily Available

Very rich, balsamic-sweet, floral and somewhat spicy, reminiscent of lilac, hyacinth, although it has a distinct topnote of hydrocarbon character, unpleasant and actually not wante…