116 materials found

Lavandin Oil

Lavandula hybrida
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Readily Available

Strongly herbaceous with a very fresh camphene-cineole-like topnote which should not be distinctly camphoraceous. The rich, woody-herbaceous notes of the body components will usual…

Lemon Aroma

Citrus limon
Aroma Distillate Citrus Fresh / Clean Readily Available

Contains the most delicate and light-aromatic parts of the fragrance and flavor of the lemon oil.

Lemongrass Oil

Cymbopogon flexuosus / Cymbopogon citratus
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Readily Available

Very strong, fresh-grassy lemon-type, herbaceous or tea-like odor. West Indian type has an earthy undertone reminiscent of Ceylon citronella oil, while East Indian type smells swee…

Lemon Oil

Citrus limomum
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Fruity Readily Available

Very light, fresh and sweet odor, truly reminiscent of the ripe peel. No turpentine-like, harsh-terpene notes should be detectable on a perfume blotter. Good oils retain their fres…

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.

Leptospermum Citratum Oil

Leptospermum citratum
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Very strong, fresh, sweet, yet somewhat sharp or pungent odor, reminiscent of lemongrass, lemon petitgrain and Java citronella oils in a sweet, well-balanced mixture. The power and…

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…

Litsea Cubeba Oil

Litsea cubeba
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Fruity Irregular / Rare

Intensely lemon-like, fresh and sweet odor, with a soft and sweet-fruity, uniform dryout. Few or no 'fatty-grassy' methyl heptenone notes detectable.

Louro Nhamuy Oil

Nectandra elaiophora
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Not Commercial

Fresh and strongly terpene-like, sweet odor. Little or no resemblance to true bois de rose oil, but has much in common with petitgrain monoterpenes and foreruns. Sweet, bitter-leaf…

Mastic

Pistacia lentiscus
Oleo-gum-resin Balsamic Fresh / Clean Resinous Limited Quantities

Faint, balsamic-turpentine-like odor (dry mastic). Oil: turpentine-like, fresh-balsamic odor. Resinoid: bitter-woody, natural undertone with good fixation.

Melaleuca Alternifolia Oil

Melaleuca alternifolia
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Warm-spicy, aromatic-terpenic odor, reminiscent of nutmeg, cardamom and sweet marjoram, but with a strong emphasis on the terpinene- and terpinenol-notes (odor of the foreruns from…

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…

Melissa Oil

Melissa officinalis
Essential Oil Citrus Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Irregular / Rare

Very pleasant citral-citronellal type of fresh and sweet-herbaceous odor.

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…

Milfoil Oil

Achillea millefolium
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Irregular / Rare

Sharp, somewhat camphoraceous odor, drying out in a sweeter, faint and pleasant note. The overall odor may recall the odors of cedarleaf and tansy, Texas cedarwood (faintly) and va…

Myrtle Oil

Myrtus communis
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Readily Available

Strongly camphoraceous-spicy, but also sweet-herbaceous and fresh body-notes. The better oils, e.g. Tunisian and Corsican myrtle oils, are very fresh and strong in topnotes, and ye…

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…

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.

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 …

Oil of Eucalyptus Numerosa "Type"

Eucalyptus numerosa
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Fresh / Clean Minty Readily Available

Fresh-peppery, spicy and minty odor with a bitter-terpeney, rather unpleasant undertone. There is little or no dryout note.

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…

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…

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.

Oregon Balsam Oil

Pseudotsuga menziesii
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Irregular / Rare

Light, pleasant-fresh, turpentine-like odor. Very volatile oil with poor tenacity. The fresh and natural note is far superior to that of pinene isolated from ordinary turpentine oi…

Pandanus Absolute

Pandanus odoratissimus
Absolute Aldehydic / Soapy Floral Fresh / Clean Irregular / Rare

Intensely sharp, very powerful and diffusive, but also very sweet, hyacinth-honeylike odor. The powerful topnote is of very short duration, leaving only a faint, sweet-floral and f…

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…

Petitgrain Bigarade Oil

Citrus aurantium subspecies amara
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Limited Quantities

Pleasant, fresh-floral, sweet odor, reminiscent of orange flowers with a slightly woody-herbaceous undertone and very faint, but sweet-floral dryout notes. The bitter topnote is po…

Petitgrain Bigarade sur fleurs d'oranger

Citrus aurantium var. amara
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Irregular / Rare

Fresh and sweet-floral odor, reminiscent of orange flowers, of terpeneless petitgrain oil, and having a soft, sweet-woody, tenacious undertone. The orange-flowers seem to display t…