280 materials found
Ocimum Canum Oil
Ocimum canumIntensely 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…
Opopanax
Commiphora erythraea var. glabrascensSweet-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
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…
Orange Flower Absolute
Citrus aurantiumVery 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 Concrete
Citrus aurantium subsp. amaraExtremely 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…
Orris Absolute
Iris florentinaExtremely 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…
Orris Concrète Oil
Iris pallidaWoody, fatty-oily but distinctly violet-like odor, with a fruity undertone, sweet-floral, warm and tenacious. Melts at about body temperature.
Orris Resinoid
Iris pallidaDeep-sweet, slightly woody-tobacco-like odor with winy topnote and sweet, root-like undertone.
Osyris Tenuifolia Oil
Osyris tenuifoliaVery faint, but pleasant-woody, somewhat sweet odor, not unlike that of araucaria oil. Very crude and dark oils, or freshly distilled oils, may smell dry, tar-like, reminiscent of …
Palmarosa Oil
Cymbopogon martiniSweet, floral-rosy odor and various undertones or topnotes according to the quality and age of the oil.
Pandanus Absolute
Pandanus odoratissimusIntensely 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…
Paradise Seed Oil
Amomum meleguetaSpicy-woody, somewhat sweet, faintly peppery odor. When comminuted, the seed emits a strong, sweet-fruity odor, reminiscent of strawberry and banana.
Paraguay Petitgrain Oil
Citrus aurantium subspecies amaraStrong, bitter-sweet, woody-floral odor. The topnote is somewhat harsh, but it quickly gives way to a heavy and sweet bodynote of typical petitgrain character: bitter-floral, with …
Parsley Seed Oil
Petroselinum sativumWarm-woody, spicy, somewhat sweet-herbaceous but not at all reminiscent of parsley herb.
Passionflower Absolute
Passiflora speciesVery fragrant flowers. Passionflower perfumes are often composed as simple modifications of honeysuckle perfumes.
Patchouli Oil
Pogostemon cablinExtremely 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…
Peru Balsam
Myroxylon pereiraeThe 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 pereiraeTruly 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 …
Petitgrain Bigarade sur fleurs d'oranger
Citrus aurantium var. amaraFresh 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…
Pimenta Berry Oil
Pimenta officinalisWarm-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…
Pimenta Berry Oleoresin
Pimenta dioicaPimpinella Absolute
Pimpinella saxifraga, Pimpinella magnaVery 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 palustrisSweet, 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 Pumilio Oil
Pinus pumilioVery pleasant pine-type odor: balsamic-sweet, faintly woody, also slightly spicy, reminiscent of cypress and juniperberry, with an increasingly oily-fatty, but interesting underton…
Plumeria Rubra Absolute
Plumeria rubraReminiscent of neroli and gardenia, tremendously sweet, yet fresh and suave, but tenacious beyond measure. More fragrant at night than daytime.
Port Oxford Cedarwood Oil
Chamaecyparis lawsonianaModerately sweet-woody, pine-oil-like, bitter fennel-like, substantially different from the odor of other cedarwood oils. Could remind of the odor of a mixture of pine oil and Virg…
Rectified Birch Tar Oil
Betula speciesDistinctly phenolic, very penetrating and diffusive, obviously reminiscent of tar, charred wood and smoke. The most characteristic feature is the sweet-oily undertone which appears…
Reseda Absolute
Reseda odorataIntensely herbaceous-green, with a sweet, watercress-like undertone, and not at all sharp. A peculiar sweetness, reminiscent of roasted chicory-root and with a spicy mellowness, fo…
Rhodium Wood Oil
Convolvulus scopariusFaint, but pleasant, sweet-woody, somewhat floral odor, reminiscent of nerol, nerolidol, rhodinol and linalool.
Robinia Pseudacacia absolute
Robinia pseudacaciaThe odor of Robinia Pseudacacia absolute is somewhat reminiscent of the absolutes of mimosa or cassie, but it has an orange flower sharpness, and a sweeter, spicier dryout than the…