95 materials found

Karna Oil

Citrus species
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Not Commercial

Fresh citrusy, somewhat bitter-leafy odor with a sweet and floral undertone. The odor resembles that of lemon petitgrain 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…

Licorice Extract

Glycyrrhiza glabra
Extract Earthy / Rooty Spicy Sweet Readily Available

Sweet, mild odor somewhat different from that of the botanical starting material (the aqueous extract is often evaporated over an open fire and some caramellization of the extract …

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…

Linseed Oil Absolute

Linum usitatissimum
Absolute Animalic Marine / Seaweed On Order Only

Mild, fatty-oily odor, reminiscent of the odor of freshly expressed linseed oil (after proper ageing). The odor is also reminiscent of the slightly fishy-animal-like odor of fresh …

Long Pepper Oil

Piper longum
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Spicy Woody Not Commercial

Somewhat reminiscent of the odor of various "false" cubeb oils: warm and faintly aromatic, somewhat woody and cineole-lemon-like. Complete absence of "light" or fresh-peppery topno…

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…

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 …

Murraya Paniculata Oil

Murraya paniculata
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Not Commercial

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

Musk

Moschus moschiferus
Animal (crude) Animalic Musky Sweet Irregular / Rare

Characteristic animal-type, slightly amine-like, sweet and very persistent odor. Intense, yet typical musk odor in absolute form.

Mustard Oil

Brassica nigra
Essential Oil Phenolic / Sharp Readily Available

Extremely sharp, acrylic, irritating odor, and of lachrymatory effect.

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.

Ocimum Canum Oil

Ocimum canum
Essential Oil Balsamic Fruity Sweet Irregular / Rare

Intensely 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…

Ocimum Kilimanjaricum Oil

Ocimum kilimanjaricum
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Herbaceous Spicy Irregular / Rare

Warm and aromatic, spicy-camphoraceous odor (even when the oil is "decamphorized").

Olibanum

Boswellia species
Oleo-gum-resin Balsamic Resinous Readily Available

Palmarosa Oil

Cymbopogon martini
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Readily Available

Sweet, floral-rosy odor and various undertones or topnotes according to the quality and age of the oil.

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…

Pterocarpus Oils

Pterocarpus species
Other Not Commercial

Red sandalwood wood is not fragrant and does not yield essential oil. African Rosewood is faintly fragrant but not used for distillation. Many Pterocarpus species have fragrant woo…

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 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.

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.

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.

Spearmint Oil

Mentha spicata
Essential Oil Green / Leafy Herbaceous Spicy Readily Available

very warm, slightly green-herbaceous odor, penetrating and powerful, truly reminiscent of the odor of the crushed herb

Spikenard Oil

Nardostachys jatamansi
Essential Oil Animalic Earthy / Rooty Spicy Irregular / Rare

Heavy, sweet-woody and spicy-animal odor, reminiscent of valerian, ginger, cardamom and Atlas cedarwood oils.

Sumbul Root Oil

Ferula sumbul
Essential Oil Balsamic Musky Sweet Irregular / Rare

Warm-woody, orris-like and very faintly musky ("animal") type of odor, remotely reminiscent of valerian, de-sulphurized asafoetida, costus and elecampane. There is a certain balsam…

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

Tagetes Patula Oil

Tagetes patula
Essential Oil Fruity Green / Leafy Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Very powerful fruity topnote, somewhat reminiscent of green apples. The body-notes are strongly herbaceous, somewhat sharp, like the non-floral part of the lavender fragrance. Old …