48 materials found

Angelica Root Absolute

Angelica archangelica
Absolute Earthy / Rooty Musky Spicy Limited Quantities

Intensely 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…

Angelica Root Oil

Angelica archangelica
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Musky Limited Quantities

Light, somewhat peppery topnote (from young roots). Rich, somewhat herbaceous-earthy, woody body-note of unique tenacity and great diffusive power. Slightly musky-animal-like with …

Arnica Oil

Arnica montana
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Spicy Irregular / Rare

The oil resembles that of chamomile with a certain woody-earthy undertone. Arnica Absolute or Arnica Resinoine are intensely herbaceous-sweet, tealike, somewhat spicy, powerful and…

Artemisia Alba Oil

Artemisia alba
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Green / Leafy Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Very powerful, bitter-herbaceous odor. The 'greenness' in odor type and the peculiar bitter aroma makes it interesting for chypre, fougère, 'forest' notes.

Atractylis Oil

Atractylis ovata
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Spicy Woody Limited Quantities

Strong peppery, woody-spicy, warm and dry, somewhat reminiscent of elemi, ginger, and galanga.

Bitter Fennel Oil

Foeniculum vulgare
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Earthy / Rooty Spicy Readily Available

Somewhat sharp and warm-camphoraceous odor, initially earthy, but later on sweet, anisic and spicy.

Buchu Leaf Oil

Barosma betulina
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Earthy / Rooty Minty Limited Quantities

Very peculiar: strong, bitter-sweet, minty-camphoraceous, rootlike, penetrating and somewhat medicinal, reminiscent of cough preparations.

Cangerana Oil

Cabralea cangerana
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Spicy Woody Limited Quantities

Distinctly woody, very dry and earthy, spicy-peppery, reminiscent of cubeb oil, cyperus oils, carrot seed oil, clove leaf sesquiterpenes.

Carrot Seed Oil

Daucus carota
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Spicy Sweet Readily Available

Peculiar 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…

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 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.

Costus Oil

Saussurea lappa
Essential Oil Animalic Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Readily Available

Peculiar soft, but extremely tenacious odor, reminiscent of old, precious wood, orris root, fatty (but not rancid) acids, vetiverol, etc., with a distinctly animal or sebaceous und…

Cyperus Oil

Cyperus scariosus
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Oriental / Heavy Spicy Limited Quantities

Woody-earthy and very tenacious odor. The very first impression bears great resemblance to the Oriental cinnamon-olibanum complex: diffusive, dry, woody, slightly spicy. The overal…

East African Cedarwood Oil

Juniperus procera
Essential Oil Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Woody Readily Available

Very dry-woody, somewhat earthy and quite strong with a slightly cade-like topnote. The dry notes yield to an increasing balsamic sweetness as the oil dries out on a perfume blotte…

Elecampane Absolute

Inula helenium
Absolute Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Sweet Irregular / Rare

Very soft, woody-rootlike, slightly fatty-sweet or 'oily', extremely tenacious. Less earthy, more tenacious and rich odor than the essential oil.

Elecampane Oil

Inula helenium
Essential Oil Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Sweet Limited Quantities

Dry-woody in odor, but also sweet, somewhat ambre- or honeylike with a fatty undertone. The odor has some resemblance to those of calamus, costus and cedrela.

Eugenia Jambolana Oil

Eugenia jambolana
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Earthy / Rooty Spicy Not Commercial

Dry, woody, strong and spicy-earthy like a very poor patchouli oil (cade-like topnote). There is an undertone with some similarity to clove leaf oil, but a strong and heavy terpene…

Flouve Oil

Anthoxanthum odoratum
Essential Oil Coumarinic / Hay Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Intensely sweet, coumarinic-haylike and heavy herbaceous odor. Has no mossy notes, but has a certain fatty-rootlike undertone reminiscent of elecampane and mimosa. Not floral, but …

Galbanum

Ferula species
Oleo-gum-resin Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Green / Leafy Readily Available

Powerful, green-woody, almost balsamic-resinous, reminiscent of oleoresins from conifers. The leafy-earthy, green note is often referred to as 'like green peppers' or 'tossed green…

Geranium Absolute

Pelargonium graveolens
Absolute Earthy / Rooty Floral Green / Leafy Limited Quantities

Intense and very powerful, somewhat leafy-earthy, but soft and pleasant odor. The leafy-green notes are quite pronounced, but the rich, rosy-minty undertone remains on a blotter th…

Geranium Concrète

Pelargonium graveolens
Concrète Earthy / Rooty Floral Green / Leafy Readily Available

Intensely earthy herbaceous, somewhat sharp-rosy, foliage-green odor and great tenacity.

Indian Valerian Oil

Valeriana wallichii
Essential Oil Balsamic Camphoraceous / Medicinal Earthy / Rooty Irregular / Rare

Balsamic-woody, slightly spicy-root-like odor with a distinct note of valerian acid, more or less pronounced according to the age of the oil. The musk-like and patchouli like, camp…

Ivy Leaf Absolute

Hedera helix
Absolute Earthy / Rooty Green / Leafy Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Intensively herbaceous-green, or bark-green odor, and a rich, sweet-bitter foliage-extract undertone. Among the most interesting 'green' or 'foliage'-like natural materials.

Labdanum Absolute from Resinoid

Cistus ladanifer
Absolute Balsamic Earthy / Rooty Resinous Readily Available

Petroleum ether extracts yield absolutes of a 'cistus oil' type of odor, more dry and ambra-like. Absolutes from benzene-resinoids have a sweeter ambre-like odor and often a somewh…

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 …

Lovage Root Oil

Levisticum officinale
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Spicy Limited Quantities

Very powerful and rich, spicy-warm, fresh-aromatic, intensely sweet and "root-like" odor, suggestive of celery, angelica, licorice extract, deertongue oleoresin, etc.

Machilus Wood Oil

Machilus kusanoi
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Spicy Tobacco Limited Quantities

Slightly spicy-woody, tobacco-like or cigarbox-like, somewhat earthy, mild, but tenacious. Some resemblance to the odor of araucaria, guaiacwood, atractylis, but milder and less pe…

Marigold Absolute

Calendula officinalis
Absolute Earthy / Rooty Green / Leafy Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Intensely bitter-herbaceous odor with very peculiar notes and a green "crushed-stalk" note.

Mawah Oil

Pelargonium radula
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Floral Green / Leafy Limited Quantities

Somewhat bitter-harsh, leafy-woody, slightly earthy, but later toning out in a much more pleasant rosy, 'geranium' type of odor. The dryout note is more similar to that of palmaros…

Melilotus Extract

Melilotus officinalis
Resinoid Coumarinic / Hay Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Very sweet, herbaceous-root-like and rich odor. Often described as 'tobacco-like', though this is a coumarin-type odor that is artificially introduced in cured tobacco for flavorin…