Oakmoss Absolute (IFRA compliant)
This product, manufactured by Payan Bertrand is of Balkan origin and is produced solvent extraction from Evernia prunastri the classic oakmoss material, with adjustment by PB to achieve an absolute...
View ArticleCalone (Firmenich) Crystals
CAS No. 28940-11-6 Odour (decreasing): Fresh, watery, clean, melon-green, marine, ozone. Very substantive Solvent: none added Manufacturer: Firmenich, dilution by Pell Wall Main Synonyms: Calone,...
View ArticleExaltolide Total
Description and usage notes: Very fine and elegant musk with a natural quality, adds depth and roundness to a wide variety of creations but it also has a synergistic effect on the bouquet of a...
View ArticleFixatives 1: Musks
Fixatives Fixatives are materials that help fragrances last longer: there are a great many of them, most have an odour of their own in addition to fixative properties and not all fixatives work in the...
View ArticleFixatives 2: Non-Musk
Fixatives Fixatives are materials that help fragrances last longer: there are a great many of them, most have an odour of their own in addition to fixative properties and not all fixatives work in the...
View ArticleOakmoss Absolute 10%
This product, manufactured by Payan Bertrand is of Balkan origin and is produced by solvent extraction from Evernia prunastri the classic oakmoss material, with adjustment by PB to achieve an absolute...
View ArticleClary Sage Absolute PB
Description and usage notes: This absolute, produced by Payan Bertrand, is a particularly nice example of this extremely useful material. It is difficult to substitute with anything else but see also...
View ArticleDiphenyl oxide
Description and usage notes: A strong diffusive green note in the direction of geranium leaf. Recommended to evaluate at 1% or less. It is more green and less floral than rose oxide. Apart from the...
View ArticleNerolin Bromelia
Description and usage notes: A soft, long-lasting neroli/orange-flower note, nerolin bromelia (beta-naphthyl ethyl ether) is closely related to nerolin yara yara (beta-naphthyl methyl ether), but with...
View ArticleCedryl acetate crystals
Description and usage notes: Tenacious, dry, woody, cedar tone with a slight leathery quality. A very effective fixative. This product takes the form of white crystals, and is also available as a...
View ArticleVanillin
Description and usage notes: This chemical is the key component of the natural vanilla odour and is characteristic of vanilla based scents and flavours. In this form it is one of the most widely used...
View ArticleTonalid
Description and usage notes: Crystals of this widely used, clean, diffusive musk: one of the few early non-Nitro-musks that has stood the test of time and continues to be used extensively in modern...
View ArticleTolu Balsam (solid)
Description and usage notes: In its natural state Tolu Balsam is rock-hard and quite difficult to handle – it fractures like glass in this state – it is produced from Myroxylon balsamum and gives an...
View ArticleRose Crystals
Description and usage notes: The pure crystals barely smell at all and are not easy to dissolve in cold ethanol, however they dissolve in most perfume oils and we also supply this material...
View ArticleRootanol 100
Description and usage notes: An unusual and rarely offered, earthy, yet fresh ingredient that gives excellent support to vetiver notes as well as oriental, marine and forest-floor type compositions....
View ArticleRaspberry Ketone
Description and usage notes: Powerful and very jammy, this crystalline solid has a lovel raspberry-jam, deep character that can be easily pushed in the direction of other fruits when used in...
View ArticleOranger Crystals
Description and usage notes: An inexpensive way to add a light but very tenacious orange-flower note with a powdery quality to fragrances; it also has some fixative value. See also the related...
View ArticlePeonile
Description and usage notes: Retained as a captive for some years, this is an extremely useful floral fixative that works excellently with almost all floral materials. Description from Givaudan: “Odor:...
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Norlimbanol
Description and usage notes: Extremely useful and powerful woody-amber-animal note that is highly persistent. This isn’t like most woody chemicals that evoke the smell of freshly cut woods of various...
View ArticleNerolin Yara Yara
Description and usage notes: A powerful traditional perfumery material with a sweet floral aroma of orange blossom, acacia and neroli. Widely used in classic fragrances. This is a highly refined...
View ArticleMuscomer Extra 810 P
CAS No. 26896-48-0 Odour (decreasing): Sweet, amber, musk, floral, sandalwood Solvent: -none added Manufacturer: Grau Aromatics Main Synonyms: tricyclodecanedimethanol See below for more description
View ArticleMethyl anthranilate
Description and usage notes: One of the classic perfumery ingredients of wide application, limited mainly by its reactivity with other perfumery materials. Where you need a less reactive material of...
View ArticleLindenol
Description and usage notes: This is alpha-Terpineol but at a higher purity than usual and very nice. From IFF: ”Specially produced for fine perfumery. High purity offers outstanding odor value. Clean,...
View ArticleVerdol
Description and usage notes: Powerful, minty, camphoraceous, somewhat pine-woody and patchouli-like can add radiant effects to fresh perfumes. Extremely tenacious and therefore useful for continuing a...
View ArticleBenzophenone
Description and usage notes: A very mild-smelling solid that comes as white flakes. A good fixative for rose and other floral notes that is also very helpful in hot applications like candles and bath...
View ArticleCinnamyl cinnamate (Givaudan)
Description and usage notes: Mixed isomers. Mild, almond; balsam; berry; carnation; cinnamon; honey; jasmine; nutty; floral; rose; sweet. Excellent as a blending agent and as a fixative for floral...
View ArticlePhenylethyl Salicylate
Description and usage notes: One of those neglected perfumery materials that deserves to be rediscovered: this comes as white crystals that dissolve readily in ethanol, it’s an excellent fixative for...
View ArticleSyringaldehyde
Description and usage notes: Another neglected perfumery material that deserves to be better known, this comes as crystals that dissolve slowly in ethanol up to about 5%, it has fixative properties and...
View ArticleTerranol
Description and usage notes: Not to be confused with Terrasol, this Symrise product is immediately reminiscent of a mossy bank or poolside, very natural smelling and evocative. An exceptional...
View ArticleDimethyl Phenyl Ethyl Carbinol
Description and usage notes: Very useful classic material for Lily of the Valley (muguet) fragrances but also excellent in a wide variety of other floral and non-floral fragrances. Very tenacious, yet...
View ArticleKarmawood
Description and usage notes: Recently released by IFF Karmawood shares a CAS number with the very similar Norlimbanol, though it isn’t quite as powerful it has the advantage of being somewhat cheaper...
View ArticleLilyflore
Description and usage notes: An expensive but very effective alternative to the now banned Lyral and perhaps also to Lilial. Description from Firmenich: “LILYFLORE® is a beautiful muguet floral note...
View ArticleBHT – anti-oxidant
Description and usage notes: One of the most widely used antioxidants in perfumery. Widely added to aroma chemicals by the better manufactures to help keep the product stable, it’s rarely added to...
View ArticleUnobtanium
Odour (decreasing): Floral-heliotrope, sweet, powdery, coconut, vanilla. Diffusive. Solvent: -none added Main Synonyms: fairy dust. See below for more description
View ArticleDihydroambrettolide
Description and usage notes: An extremely interesting and rarely offered macrocyclic musk of great diffusion and power, this relative of Ambrettolide is more animalic and less floral than the better...
View ArticlePropenyl Guaethol
Description and usage notes: An unusual and interesting material, probably more familiar to flavorists than perfumers, propenyl guaethol or Vanitrope is both a lovely, fine quality scent in its own...
View ArticleAnisyl alcohol
Description and usage notes: Milder, longer lasting and more floral and less anisic than Anisaldehyde, this is a very useful material with an odour very reminiscent of a milder Heliotropine. Occurs...
View ArticleOranger Crystals 20%
Description and usage notes: An inexpensive way to add a light but very tenacious orange-flower note with a powdery quality to fragrances; it also has some fixative value. See also the related...
View ArticleMaple Lactone crystals
Description and usage notes: Best diluted to 1% for use and evaluation: this is a powerful and long-lasting ingredient. We also offer this material as a 10% solution. Arctander suggests it “is used...
View ArticleCyclamen Blend Educational Kit
The Cyclamen Blend Kit has been put together to give you an simple way to obtain all the materials you need to make a really good cyclamen accord, plus you get 5ml of our Cyclamen Blend. What’s more...
View ArticleCortex Aldehyde
Description and usage notes: An attractive fresh green note reminiscent of the scent in a flower shop. It lasts for several days on a strip but has impact throughout the development of a fragrance. It...
View ArticleCarbinol Muguet
Description and usage notes: Very useful classic material for Lily of the Valley (muguet) fragrances but also excellent in a wide variety of other floral and non-floral fragrances. Very tenacious, yet...
View ArticleAcetanisole Crystals
Description and usage notes: A sweet, hawthorn-floral material with anisic, powdery and balsamic aspects, somewhat reminiscent of acacia. It shares some odour characteristics with anisaldehyde but is...
View ArticleFenchol
Description and usage notes: This is an extremely diffusive, fresh material that is widely used to improve lift in citrus, pine, floral and other fragrance types. It comes as a semi-liquid crystal...
View ArticleTobacco Absolute
Description and usage notes: Tobacco absolute is a very strong material, used in traces in many fragrance type to ehance sweetness, mossyness or hay notes. It’s listed as both solid and liquid as it is...
View ArticleAmbroxan
Description and usage notes: The same molecule as Ambrofix and Ambroxide. It is, along with Ambrinol and a couple of others, the principle odorous molecule present in the scent of natural ambergris....
View ArticleElemi resinoid
Description and usage notes: Elemi Resinoid is prepared by extracting crude elemi (so called Elemi Gum, but more properly an oleoresin) with a volatile solvent, usually Acetone, and removing the...
View Articlepara-Cresyl Phenyl Acetate
Description and usage notes: This is a very powerful, diffusive material that takes some time to get into solution in ethanol and we recommend using at high dilution. Nicknamed Horse Acetate by this...
View ArticleShangralide Oliffac
Description and usage notes: This is based on Galaxolide, but tweaked by IFF who manufacture it to be more animalic and more akin to natural deer musk. Description from IFF: “musk, animal, leather.”...
View ArticleVeratraldehyde
Description and usage notes: Here presented as the undiluted powdery solid, we also offer this at 50% in TEC if you prefer a liquid ingredient. Soft balsamic / vanilla note and replacement / booster...
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