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Cymbopogon Connatus Oil

Cymbopogon connatus
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Green / Leafy Herbaceous On Order Only

Intensely fatty-green, spicy-fresh with a sweeter dryout and a strongly herbaceous undertone. Outstanding diffusive power.

Cyperus Oil

Cyperus scariosus
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Oriental / Heavy Spicy Limited Quantities

Woody-earthy and very tenacious odor. The very first impression bears great resemblance to the Oriental cinnamon-olibanum complex: diffusive, dry, woody, slightly spicy. The overal…

Henna

Lawsonia inermis
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Floral Herbaceous Not Commercial

Flowers smell extremely sweet, delicately floral and tealike, reminiscent of boronia and chloranthus spicatus oils. The attar is somewhat medicinal, phenolic or bitter, but with a …

Myrrh

Commiphora species
Oleo-gum-resin Balsamic Spicy Sweet Readily Available

Warm-balsamic, sweet and somewhat spicy-aromatic; also somewhat sharp or pungent when fresh, but never terebinthinate.

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