Natural Ingredients Elemi
Ingredient GuideElemi comes from a plant in the Burseraceae family native to the Philippines. The fragrance material is ...
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Natural Ingredients Cedarwood
Cedarwood is a woody fragrance material also known as cedar or cèdre. Explore its history since ancient times and its dry, composed woody character.
Natural Ingredients Osmanthus
Osmanthus is a floral fragrance material from the plants known in Japanese as mokusei, including kinmokusei. Explore its sweet floral, apricot-like and leathery scent, and the characteristics of its extracts.
Natural Ingredients Ginger Lily
Ginger lily is a white flower also known as butterfly lily. Discover its floral fragrance, reminiscent of tuberose and gardenia.
Natural Ingredients Cypriol
Ingredient GuideCypriol, also called nagarmotha (and sometimes rendered as shipuriōru in Japanese), is a type of sedge t...
Natural Ingredients Opoponax
Opoponax, also known as sweet myrrh, is a resinous fragrance material. Explore its name and botanical origins, its sweet, warm balsamic scent, and how it differs from myrrh.
Natural Ingredients Castoreum
Castoreum, also known in Japanese as kairikō, is an animal-derived fragrance material from the beaver’s castor sacs. Explore its origins and its leathery, smoky scent.
Natural Ingredients Geranium
Geranium leaves are covered in oil-secreting hairs and release a rose-like scent when touched. Its flowers are small and pale pink. Steam-distilling the slightly wilted leaves and stems produces a rose-scented essential oil.
Natural Ingredients Mandarin (Tangerine)
Ingredient GuideMandarin, a member of the Rutaceae family, is known as the mandarin orange and is an orange native to Ch...
Natural Ingredients Gardenia
Gardenia, called kuchinashi in Japan, has an intoxicating white-floral scent with a pungent greenness and earthy nuances.