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Artemisia Alba Oil

Artemisia alba
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Green / Leafy Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Very powerful, bitter-herbaceous odor. The 'greenness' in odor type and the peculiar bitter aroma makes it interesting for chypre, fougère, 'forest' notes.

Calamintha Oil

Calamintha clinopodium
Essential Oil Citrus Herbaceous Spicy Limited Quantities

Almost pungent, intensely herbaceous, somewhat woody, but also displays a rich, sweet-spicy undertone. European oils seem to reveal a great variety of components with often a typic…

Cherry Laurel Oil

Prunus laurocerasus
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Sweet Historical / Obsolete

Strong and sweet bitter almond odor.

Helichrysum Oil

Helichrysum angustifolium
Essential Oil Balsamic Floral Fruity Readily Available

Powerful 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…

Labdanum

Cistus ladaniferus
Gum Resin Balsamic Resinous Readily Available

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.

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

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