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.
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Natural Ingredients Cardamom
Cardamom is a long-known spice in the ginger family. Explore its scent, which combines coolness and warmth, and how it is used in perfume.
Natural Ingredients Blackberry
How is the fruitiness of blackberry expressed in perfume? Explore its juicy sweet-tart character, its pairing with musk, and the background to representative fragrances.
Natural Ingredients Birch
Birch is a tree of the genus Betula, also known in Japanese as kaba. The essential oil obtained by drying and distilling its bark is called birch tar and has a smoky, leathery scent.
Natural Ingredients Basil
Basil is an herbal fragrance material made by distilling the flowering aerial parts. Explore its fresh, green, spicy, anise-like scent and its uses in perfumery.
Natural Ingredients Apricot
Apricot, known in Japanese as anzu, is represented mainly by synthetic fragrance materials. It has a juicy, fruity sweetness and a slightly animalic scent.
Natural Ingredients Aniseed (≈ Star Anise)
Anise and star anise are botanically different plants. Learn about the two materials, the sweet, spicy qualities they share, and how they are used differently in perfumery.
Natural Ingredients Angelica
Angelica, also known in Japanese as seiyō-tōki, is a plant in the Apiaceae family. Discover the legend behind its name and the characteristics of its herbal, earthy scent.
Natural Ingredients Ambrette Seed
Ambrette seed is a plant-derived fragrance material obtained from musk mallow seeds. Explore the source plant and the character of its soft, musky scent.
Natural Ingredients Ambrarome
Trace the origins of Ambrarome and its connection with the fragrance manufacturer Synarome, and explore its character as an amber material and its uses in perfume.