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Lippia Carviodora Oil

Lippia carviodora
Essential Oil Herbaceous Minty Spicy Not Commercial

An odor which can hardly be described without the use of the term Caraway. Except for dill seed oil, no other essential oil is so strikingly similar to caraway as the oil from Lipp…

Muhuhu Oil

Brachylaena hutchinsii
Essential Oil Balsamic Floral Sweet Irregular / Rare

Soft, balsamic-woody, somewhat sweet and faintly floral odor, reminiscent of vetiver, sandalwood and tail-fractions of Atlas cedarwood oil. Fresh oils show a strong topnote of styr…

Osyris Tenuifolia Oil

Osyris tenuifolia
Essential Oil Smoky / Tarry Sweet Woody Irregular / Rare

Very faint, but pleasant-woody, somewhat sweet odor, not unlike that of araucaria oil. Very crude and dark oils, or freshly distilled oils, may smell dry, tar-like, reminiscent of …

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