17 materials found

Anise Oil

Pimpinella anisum
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Spicy Sweet Limited Quantities

Intensely sweet and clean odor, truly reminiscent of the crushed fruit. Very common description is that of 'licorice odor'.

Carob Bean

Ceratonia siliqua
Extract Animalic Fruity Sweet Readily Available

Faint odor of the bean with a cheese-like, almost rancid odor due to butyric acid content. The flowers yield a concrete of mimosa-cassie type odor.

Fenugreek Extract

Trigonella foenum-graecum
Extract Balsamic Coumarinic / Hay Herbaceous Readily Available

Intensely sweet, spicy, protein like, soup-like and caramellic odor from comminuted seed. The characteristic odor is a celery-like spicyness, a coumarinic-balsamic sweetness and an…

Fig Leaf Absolute

Ficus carica
Absolute Green / Leafy Herbaceous Mossy Limited Quantities

Delicately sweet-green, herbaceous and somewhat woody odor with a mossy undertone.

Labdanum

Cistus ladaniferus
Oleoresin Animalic Balsamic Herbaceous Readily Available

Sweet, herbaceous balsamic, somewhat ambra-like and slightly animalic, rich and tenacious.

Labdanum Concrète

Cistus ladaniferus
Concrète Balsamic Herbaceous Sweet Readily Available

Sweet and pleasant, balsamic ambra-like odor with a tenacious undertone of rich, herbaceous character. This is an odor which is quite familiar to anyone who has visited the Mediter…

Larch Turpentine

Larix decidua
Oleoresin Balsamic Pine / Coniferous Resinous Irregular / Rare

Soft, balsamic terpenic odor, reminiscent of fresh conifer resins and cones.

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 …

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…

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.

Oakmoss

Evernia prunastri
Absolute Earthy / Rooty Mossy Woody Readily Available

Saffron Oil

Crocus sativus
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Floral Herbaceous Not Commercial

Most peculiar, intensely sweet, spicy, floral-aldehydic odor with a slightly fatty-herbaceous undertone. Fresh, strong odor, recalling that of the botanical material.

Sweet Fennel Oil

Foeniculum vulgare var. dulce
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Fruity Spicy Irregular / Rare

Very sweet, but slightly earthy or peppery-spicy odor and a clean, sweet-aromatic dryout. There is a hint of a fruity-fresh topnote in fresh oils.

Sweet Orange Oil

Citrus aurantium var. dulcis
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Citrus Fresh / Clean Readily Available

sweet, light and fresh, fruity-aldehydic odor and flavor, distinctly reminiscent of the odor from a scratched sweet orange peel

Turpentine

Pinus palustris
Oleoresin Pine / Coniferous Resinous Readily Available

Turpentine Oil

Pinus species
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Readily Available

Peculiar warm-balsamic, refreshing odor, reminiscent of paint, stain removers, insecticides, solvents, etc.

Wallflower Absolute

Cheiranthus cheiri
Absolute Floral Sweet Historical / Obsolete

Intensely sweet floral fragrance, reminiscent of jasmin, honey, orange flower, ylang-ylang and with a narcissus-carnation-like, green topnote.