33 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'.

Arnica Oil

Arnica montana
Essential Oil Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Spicy Irregular / Rare

The oil resembles that of chamomile with a certain woody-earthy undertone. Arnica Absolute or Arnica Resinoine are intensely herbaceous-sweet, tealike, somewhat spicy, powerful and…

Bitter Fennel Oil

Foeniculum vulgare
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Earthy / Rooty Spicy Readily Available

Somewhat sharp and warm-camphoraceous odor, initially earthy, but later on sweet, anisic and spicy.

Bitter Orange Oil

Citrus aurantium
Essential Oil Citrus Floral Fresh / Clean Irregular / Rare

Very 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…

Calamus Oil

Acorus calamus
Essential Oil Balsamic Spicy Sweet Readily Available

Warm, woody-spicy and pleasant odor with increasingly sweet afternotes and great tenacity. Good oils bear some resemblance to dried milk or sweet leather, slightly creamy-nutty. Po…

Caraway Oil

Carum carvi
Essential Oil Herbaceous Phenolic / Sharp Spicy Readily Available

Strong and peculiar odor typical of the fruit, but with a fatty-harsh undertone in crude oil. Rectified oil has stronger, less fatty odor. Characteristic initial note of nauseating…

Castoreum

Castor canadensis
Animal (crude) Animalic Leather Smoky / Tarry Readily Available

Warm, animal, leather-like sweet odor. A frequent 'smoky' note in castoreum is not natural but due to drying the glands over smoking fires. The 'birch-tar' note may also be due to …

Cherry Laurel Oil

Prunus laurocerasus
Essential Oil Aldehydic / Soapy Sweet Historical / Obsolete

Strong and sweet bitter almond odor.

Clary Sage Oil

Salvia sclarea
Essential Oil Balsamic Herbaceous Sweet Readily Available

Sweet-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…

Cumin Oil

Cuminum cyminum
Essential Oil Green / Leafy Herbaceous Spicy Readily Available

Extremely powerful, diffusive, green-spicy, slightly fatty, but at the same time not sharp or pungent, almost soft and mellow. This softness is one of the main features of a true o…

Eucalyptus Citriodora Oil

Eucalyptus citriodora
Essential Oil Balsamic Citrus Floral Readily Available

Strong and very fresh, rosy-citronella-like odor and a sweet, balsamic-floral dryout note.

Geranium Oil

Pelargonium graveolens
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Readily Available

German Chamomile Oil

Matricaria chamomilla
Essential Oil Coumarinic / Hay Fruity Herbaceous Irregular / Rare

Intensely sweet, herbaceous-coumarin-like odor with a fresh-fruity undertone. In pure and undiluted state, the sweetness and odor-intensity is almost sickening, nauseating. The dry…

Hiba Oil

Thujopsis dolobrata
Essential Oil Phenolic / Sharp Woody Limited Quantities

Dry, woody odor with a peculiar sharp or pungent undertone. Various types available with slightly varying odor depending on presence of ketonic fungistat-bacteriostat.

Hyssop Oil

Hyssopus officinalis
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Herbaceous Spicy Limited Quantities

Powerful, somewhat sharp, but sweet-camphoraceous odor, and with a warm-aromatic, spicy undertone.

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 …

Melilotus Extract

Melilotus officinalis
Resinoid Coumarinic / Hay Earthy / Rooty Herbaceous Limited Quantities

Very sweet, herbaceous-root-like and rich odor. Often described as 'tobacco-like', though this is a coumarin-type odor that is artificially introduced in cured tobacco for flavorin…

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…

Picea Excelsa Oil

Picea excelsa
Essential Oil Balsamic Fresh / Clean Pine / Coniferous Limited Quantities

Very light, fresh, balsamic-pine needle type odor. The dryout is somewhat less sweet, woody, slightly cedarlike.

Rectified Birch Tar Oil

Betula species
Essential Oil Leather Phenolic / Sharp Smoky / Tarry Limited Quantities

Distinctly phenolic, very penetrating and diffusive, obviously reminiscent of tar, charred wood and smoke. The most characteristic feature is the sweet-oily undertone which appears…

Rose Absolute Damascena

Rosa damascena
Absolute Balsamic Floral Spicy Readily Available

Extremely rich, warm, spicy-floral and very deep rose odor with a more or less pronounced honeylike undertone. Its diffusive power is only realized when diluted or used at concentr…

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…

Rosemary Oil

Rosmarinus officinalis
Essential Oil Fresh / Clean Herbaceous Minty Readily Available

Strong, fresh, woody-herbaceous, somewhat minty-forestlike odor. The "high" fresh notes vanish quickly, yielding to a clean, woody-balsamic bodynote which tones out in a dry-herbac…

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.

Savory Oil

Satureja hortensis, Satureja montana
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Herbaceous Phenolic / Sharp Limited Quantities

Fresh medicinal-spicy odor, reminiscent of sage and thyme, but with a sharpness recalling that of cumin oil, although not distinctly green. The dryout is rather phenolic-harsh.

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

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…

Thyme Oil

Thymus vulgaris
Essential Oil Camphoraceous / Medicinal Herbaceous Spicy Readily Available

Rich and powerful, sweet, and warm-herbaceous in odor, somewhat spicy and distinctly aromatic. There should be no bitter-phenolic, cade-like or tar-like notes detectable, but there…

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.