133 materials found

Lavender Absolute

Lavandula angustifolia
Absolute Coumarinic / Hay Floral Herbaceous Readily Available

Very rich, sweet-herbaceous, somewhat floral odor; in dilution, it bears a close resemblance to the odor of the flowering lavender shrubs. Its woody-herby undertone and coumarin-li…

Lavender Oil

Lavandula officinalis
Essential Oil Floral Herbaceous Sweet Readily Available

Sweet, floral-herbaceous refreshing odor with a pleasant, balsamic-woody undertone. An almost fruity-sweet topnote is of a very short life, and the entire oil is not distinguished …

Lemon Petitgrain Oil

Citrus limonum
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Limited Quantities

Very strong, fresh odor with a distinct bitter undertone, at times woody, in poorer oils grassy. The dryout should be very rich and sweet, slightly floral-fruity. Particular bitter…

Lemon Petitgrain, Terpeneless

Citrus limon
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Not Commercial

Has an unequalled freshness and an enormously rich sweetness; its power will surprise most first-users. Shows tenacity in high-class colognes.

Lilac

Syringa vulgaris
Absolute Floral Powdery Sweet Not Commercial

True-to-nature lilac absolute has not been successfully produced. Existing natural extracts are inferior to artificial bases in odor effect and power. Natural lilac flowers have ex…

Lily Absolute

Lilium candidum
Absolute Balsamic Floral Fruity On Order Only

Delicately floral with a pronounced oily-waxy topnote. The balsamic-sweet body is reminiscent of narcissus and boronia, also faintly of karo-karoundé. Less green in odor than these…

Lily of the Valley Absolute

Convallaria majalis
Absolute Floral Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Irregular / Rare

Very pleasantly fragrant, with a delicate floral quality and a distinct touch of greenness, surrounded by a fresh, rosy-lemony body note. However, the entire bouquet is far from th…

Linaloe Seed Oil

Bursera delpechiana
Essential Oil Floral Fresh / Clean Woody Limited Quantities

Quite similar in odor type to Linaloe Wood Oil, but somewhat harsher, with a slightly bitter topnote. Present typical linalool-linalyl acetate odors with more or less pronounced te…

Linaloe Wood Oil

Bursera delpechiana
Essential Oil Floral Green / Leafy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Sweet-woody and floral, with a more or less green and oily topnote according to the quality of the oil. Very good oils are rare, and they show little or no pungent notes in the top…

Longoza Absolute

Hedychium flavum
Absolute Floral Fruity Spicy Irregular / Rare

extremely rich, sweet-floral, deep-fruity-honey-like, with a peculiar spicy and vanilla-tuberose-like undertone. The green-floral, lily-like note in the odor of longoza absolute is…

Lovage Herb Oil

Levisticum officinale
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Extremely diffusive odor. Initial notes resemble lovage root oil, celery seed oil and mentha citrata oil. Undertone and dryout notes are extremely sweet-aromatic, sweet-floral, rem…

Magnolia

Magnolia grandiflora
Absolute Floral Sweet Not Commercial

Extremely delicate, sweet fragrance, reminiscent of rose, violet and orange flowers or, in the opinion of others, like rosa canina, the common hedgerose (dogrose, hiprose).

Mandarin Peel Oil

Citrus reticulata
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Sweet Readily Available

Intensely sweet, not very fresh odor, occasionally with an amine-like, 'fishy' topnote and usually with a rich neroli-like, floral undertone. Shows beautiful bluish fluorescence up…

Mandarin Petitgrain Oil

Citrus reticulata
Essential Oil Floral Fruity Sweet Limited Quantities

Intensely sweet, rich, deep-fruity, grape-like, floral odor in which a distinct mustiness is characteristic, and a plum-grape-like fruity undertone lends a peculiar and very powerf…

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…

Melaleuca Viridiflora Oil, Variety "A"

Melaleuca viridiflora
Essential Oil Balsamic Floral Sweet On Order Only

Soft, sweet-balsamic, woody and slightly floral odor. On drying out, it shows not only great tenacity, but also a very pleasant, floral-woody body, although of very faint odor.

Mimosa Absolute

Acacia decurrens
Absolute Floral Green / Leafy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Very rich, floral-woody, slightly green and resembling cassie absolute to a certain degree. It is sweeter and more natural flower-like, but less spicy-complex than cassie.

Mimusops Elengi Oil

Mimusops elengi
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Not Commercial

Very delicate, sweet and extremely tenacious floral odor, somewhat reminiscent of orange flower and tuberose, or the more well-known stephanotis floribunda (gardenia undertone). A …

Muhuhu Oil

Brachylaena hutchinsii
Essential Oil Balsamic Floral Sweet Irregular / Rare

Soft, balsamic-woody, somewhat sweet and faintly floral odor, reminiscent of vetiver, sandalwood and tail-fractions of Atlas cedarwood oil. Fresh oils show a strong topnote of styr…

Murraya Paniculata Oil

Murraya paniculata
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Not Commercial

Orange-flower-like or jasmin-like in odor.

Narcissus Absolute

Narcissus poeticus
Absolute Balsamic Floral Green / Leafy Irregular / Rare

Strongly foliage-green, very sweet-herbaceous over a faint, but quite persistent floral undertone. The tenacity is very good. Des plaines type: floral-sweet, mild and rich, but not…

Néflier Concrète

Eriobotrya japonica
Concrète Balsamic Floral Sweet Not Commercial

Extremely rich, delicately floral odor, reminiscent of lilac or hyacinth, however, more suave-balsamic than the odor of these flowers.

Neroli Oil

Citrus aurantium
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Sweet Irregular / Rare

Very powerful, light and refreshing, floral with a peculiar sweet-terpeney topnote, but its tenacity is rather poor. This oil is primarily a 'top-note' material in perfumery.

Nindi Oil

Aeolanthus graveolens
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Irregular / Rare

Powerful and fresh-rosy, lemony odor with an almost muguet-like, delicate topnote and a sweet, pleasant, rosy dryout note.

Nyctanthes Arbortristis Oil

Nyctanthes arbortristis
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Irregular / Rare

Fresh and strong gardenia jasmin type odor, somewhat similar to orange flowers and jasmin.

Orange Flower Absolute

Citrus aurantium
Absolute Floral Fresh / Clean Sweet Readily Available

Very intensely floral, heavy and rich, warm, but also delicate and fresh, long-lasting odor, closely resembling the odor of fresh bitter-orange blossoms. Pleasant, but peculiar and…

Orange flower and Petitgrain Water Absolute

Citrus aurantium var. amara
Absolute Earthy / Rooty Floral Herbaceous On Order Only

Strong but not very tenacious odor, musty, dry, faintly floral, more herbaceous (herb-like) and heavy. The typical notes have been described by perfumers as being 'bread-like' or '…

Orange Flower Concrete

Citrus aurantium subsp. amara
Concrète Floral Sweet Woody Readily Available

Extremely strong, floral, deep-sweet, with a peculiar woody-breadcrust-like undertone and great tenacity in floral notes. In high dilution, it is strikingly reminiscent of the odor…

Orange Flower Water Absolute

Citrus aurantium var. amara
Absolute Citrus Floral Green / Leafy Limited Quantities

Peculiar dry-floral, musty-herbaceous odor, reminiscent of mandarin leaf oil, petitgrain oil, and, faintly, of orange flower absolute. Discolors significantly on ageing.

Orris Absolute

Iris florentina
Absolute Floral Fruity Sweet Irregular / Rare

Extremely delicate, sweet-floral, yet somewhat woody odor which appears very weak at first, but later, or on dilution, displays its full and impressive strength and diffusion. In e…