202 materials found

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…

Origanum Oil

Thymus capitatus
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Herbaceous Phenolic / Sharp Readily Available

Strong, tar-like, herbaceous, but very refreshing odor. The topnote is slightly green-camphoraceous, herbaceous, and the body is rich, dry-woody, somewhat reminiscent of cade and p…

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…

Orris Concrète Oil

Iris pallida
Essential Oil Floral Fruity Sweet Limited Quantities

Woody, fatty-oily but distinctly violet-like odor, with a fruity undertone, sweet-floral, warm and tenacious. Melts at about body temperature.

Orris Resinoid

Iris pallida
Resinoid Sweet Tobacco Woody Readily Available

Deep-sweet, slightly woody-tobacco-like odor with winy topnote and sweet, root-like undertone.

Osyris Tenuifolia Oil

Osyris tenuifolia
Essential Oil Smoky / Tarry Sweet Woody Irregular / Rare

Very 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 …

Paradise Seed Oil

Amomum melegueta
Essential Oil Fruity Spicy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Spicy-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 amara
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Sweet Readily Available

Strong, 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 sativum
Essential Oil Herbaceous Spicy Sweet Limited Quantities

Warm-woody, spicy, somewhat sweet-herbaceous but not at all reminiscent of parsley herb.

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…

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…

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 Oleoresin

Pimenta dioica
Oleoresin Spicy Sweet Woody Limited Quantities

Pimenta Leaf Oil

Pimenta dioica
Essential Oil Spicy warm Woody Limited Quantities

Dry-woody, warm-spicy, aromatic odor, reminiscent of clove leaf oil and crude eugenol.

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 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…

Port Oxford Cedarwood Oil

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana
Essential Oil Herbaceous Pine / Coniferous Sweet Historical / Obsolete

Moderately 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…

Rhodium Wood Oil

Convolvulus scoparius
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Woody Historical / Obsolete

Faint, but pleasant, sweet-woody, somewhat floral odor, reminiscent of nerol, nerolidol, rhodinol and linalool.

Rose Damascena Concrète

Rosa damascena
Concrète Floral Spicy Sweet Limited Quantities

Extremely rich, deep and sweetly floral, truly reminiscent of the red or pink rose. A peculiar sweet spiciness on a sweet-woody undertone and an immensely deep-floral and faintly h…

Rose de mai concrète

Rosa centifolia
Concrète Floral Sweet Woody Readily Available

Warm, deep-floral, slightly woody-sweet, but the spicy or honeylike notes are less pronounced than those of damascena concrète.

Rose Leaf Absolute

Rosa centifolia
Absolute Floral Green / Leafy Sweet Irregular / Rare

Intensely green-leafy, but also sweet, somewhat woody odor, truly reminiscent of the freshly crushed leaves of the rose plant.

Rosemary Oil

Rosmarinus officinalis
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Minty Readily Available

Strong, fresh, woody-herbaceous, somewhat minty-forestlike odor. The "high" fresh notes vanish quickly, yielding to a clean, woody-balsamic bodynote which tones out in a dry-herbac…

Rose Otto

Rosa damascena
Essential Oil Floral Spicy Sweet Readily Available

Warm, deep-floral, slightly spicy and immensely rich, truly reminiscent of red roses, often with nuances in the spicy and honeylike notes.

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.

Schinus Molle Oil

Schinus molle
Essential Oil Spicy Woody Limited Quantities

fresh, woody-peppery, warm-spicy with a somewhat sharp or dry, smoky-woody undertone. The odor becomes less pleasant upon ageing of the oil

Seaweed Absolute

Various seaweed species
Absolute Green / Leafy Herbaceous Marine / Seaweed Limited Quantities

Intensely green-herbaceous, phenolic-woody and "dry" odor type, distinctly recalling the odor of seaweed drying on a salt water beach after a heavy storm or surf.

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…