76 materials found
Anise Oil
Pimpinella anisumIntensely sweet and clean odor, truly reminiscent of the crushed fruit. Very common description is that of 'licorice odor'.
Basil Oil
Ocimum basilicumSweet-spicy, slightly green, fresh, with a faint balsamic woody undertone and a lasting sweetness. The exotic type is somewhat coarse-herbaceous, slightly camphoraceous in the init…
Bergamot Oil
Citrus bergamiaExtremely rich, sweet-fruity initial odor. Although the characteristics of this topnote remain perceptible in good oils, it is followed by a still more characteristic oily-herbaceo…
Bergamot-Petitgrain Oil
Citrus bergamiaTypical 'petitgrain' odor: bitter-fresh, yet with a pronounced sweet-woody background. Strong resemblance to the better grades of South American petitgrain oil, although with an em…
Bitter Fennel Oil
Foeniculum vulgareSomewhat sharp and warm-camphoraceous odor, initially earthy, but later on sweet, anisic and spicy.
Bitter Orange Oil
Citrus aurantiumVery peculiar, fresh and yet 'bitter' in the sense of 'dry', but with a rich and lasting, sweet undertone. There are notes which remind of bergamot, grapefruit and sweet orange, bu…
Broom Absolute
Spartium junceumIntensely sweet, floral haylike fragrance. The deep herbaceous-coumarinic background has great tenacity. The honey-rose notes are particularly useful.
Carnation Absolute
Dianthus caryophyllusVery sweet, honeylike, somewhat herbaceous, heavy and tenacious fragrance, reminiscent of the odor of the live flowers only to a certain degree and only in high dilutions (5% or we…
Carob Bean
Ceratonia siliquaFaint 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.
Cassie Absolute
Acacia farnesianaExtremely warm, powdery-spicy, at the same time herbaceous and floral with a deep and very tenacious cinnamic-balsamic undertone.
Cedrat Peel Oil
Citrus medicaCherry Laurel Oil
Prunus laurocerasusStrong and sweet bitter almond odor.
Clary Sage Absolute
Salvia sclareaExtremely rich, delicately sweet, yet bitter-winy and somewhat herbaceous odor of great tenacity. The absolute has a somewhat finer, less resinous odor, more balsamic-sweet than th…
Clary Sage Oil
Salvia sclareaSweet-herbaceous, tenacious in odor, soft and somewhat reminiscent of ambra in its bitter-sweet undertone. Apart from the initial linalylacetate—linalool notes, there is a very cha…
Coriander Oil
Coriandrum sativumPleasant sweet, somewhat woody-spicy, aromatic-candylike odor. The floral-balsamic undertone and peppery-woody, suave top-note are characteristic features of this delightful fragra…
Cypress Oil
Cupressus sempervirensSweet-balsamic, yet refreshing odor, reminiscent of pine needles oil, templin oil, juniper berry oil, cardamom oil (without the cineole-note), and with a unique dryout of delicate …
Dill Seed Oil
Anethum graveolensLight and fresh, warm-spicy and reminiscent of caraway and spearmint, although less sharp.
Distilled Sweet Orange Oil
Citrus sinensisFresh, sweet, not very rich odor, very poor in tenacity. Only freshly produced or well preserved oils have fresh odors. Distilled oils become rancid or oxidized more quickly than e…
European Pennyroyal Oil
Mentha pulegiumVery fresh, strong, herbaceous-minty, but not very bitter odor (in contrast to the American type).
Everlasting Absolute
Helichrysum angustifoliumIntensely sweet-herbaceous, coumarinic, honeylike, slightly woody-floral with a peculiar licorice-like undertone. The heavy and fruity sweetness is sometimes compared to that of bl…
Geranium
Pelargonium speciesGeranium Concrète
Pelargonium graveolensIntensely earthy herbaceous, somewhat sharp-rosy, foliage-green odor and great tenacity.
Geranium Oil
Pelargonium graveolensGeranium Oils
Pelargonium speciesRich and very sweet-rosy base (for Geranium sur Roses de Grasse variant).
Helichrysum Oil
Helichrysum angustifoliumPowerful and diffusive, but pleasant and rich, natural odor. The topnote has certain features in common with those of the extracted material (everlasting absolute), and these topno…
Hyssop Oil
Hyssopus officinalisPowerful, somewhat sharp, but sweet-camphoraceous odor, and with a warm-aromatic, spicy undertone.
Jasmin Absolute from Concrète
Jasminum grandiflorumIntensely floral, warm, rich and highly diffusive odor with a peculiar waxy-herbaceous, oily-fruity and tea-like undertone. The odor and the nuances in the undertone varies accordi…
Jasmin Concrète
Jasminum officinaleWarm, intensely floral, somewhat indolic-sharp, but immensely rich and tenacious. Various types of herbaceous sweet, fatty green, tea-like or 'bread'-like, almost 'broth'-like odor…
Juniperberry Oil
Juniperus communisFresh, yet warm, rich-balsamic, woody-sweet and pine-needle-like odor.
Labdanum Absolute from Concrète
Cistus ladaniferusDeep, sweet-balsamic, faintly but persistently herbaceous with an ambra-like, rich undertone. The latter is characteristic and rarely found in other perfume materials.