Extrait: Black Pepper.
Production: Steam distillation from unripe berries of piper nigrum
Origin: India
Use in Perfumery: Top note. Used for its warm dry spicy woody note that produces special effects.
Safety: Normal Usage
Comment: Another one to go easy with.

Size 10ml.
 

Extrait: Caraway Seed.
Production: Steam distillation from seeds of carum carvi.
Origin: France
Use in Perfumery: Same umbellifers family as celery seed and has similar uses. However, caraway is much warmer and spicy. It blends beautifully with jasmine and in Oriental type blends.
Safety: Normal Usage
Comment: An oil well worth getting to know.

Size 10ml.
 

Extrait: Carrot Seed.
Production: Steam distillations from dried seeds of daucus carota.
Origin: France.
Use in Perfumery: In traces for its sweet fresh woody earthy top note and to bring lift to the green classics, Oriental and floral compositions.
Safety: Normal Usage
Comment: Like the other seed oils; they have an‘outdoorsy’ quality and are useful in daytime blends.

Size 10ml.
 

Extrait: Celery Seed.
Production: Steam distillation from crushed seeds of apium graveolens.
Origin: France.
Use in Perfumery: A useful base note, which brings warmth to heavy florals. The oil is spicy warm and rich with a long dry out showing little change. Very tenacious.
Safety: Normal Usage.
Comment: Less is more especially when used with the lighter florals. Can also add intrigue to the balsams.

Size 10ml.
 

Extrait: Cinnamon Leaf.
Production: Steam distillation from leaves of cinnamomum zeylanicum.
Origin: Sri Lanka
Use in Perfumery: In minute doses for its sweet, warm, spicy, fruit character. Used particularly in floral and Oriental blends.
Safety: Do not exceed 0.5% in a composition. Avoid using cinnamon bark oil.
Comment: Avoid the oil from the bark. This is very useful if you take it easy. A tad too much and you are into the potpourri zone. If you like potpourri type fragrances you are on the wrong website.

Size 10ml.
 

Extrait: Clove Bud.
Production: Distillation from sun dried unopened flower buds of Eugenia caryophyllata.
Origin: Zanzibar
Use in Perfumery: In very small doses to impart warmth and richness to almost any blend. Fresh fruity sweet rich spicy woody with balsamic undertone. Often used in floral compositions.
Safety: Normal Usage.
Comment: The genuine bud oil is the only one to use in perfumery. It has a smoothness and warmth completely lacking in the cheaper stem and leaf oils. The higher cost is not just a question of yield. The flower buds are removed from the stem by hand which is very labour intensive.

Size 10ml.
 

Extrait: Fenugreek.
Production: Steam distillation from seeds of trigonella foenum-graecum.
Origin: France
Use in Perfumery: Intrigue intrigue and intrigue. Initial impression is overwhelmingly of curry but stay with it and a warm walnut like odour appears which adds a rich tone to most blends if not overdone. Used by the early Arabs in their perfumes.
Safety: Normal Usage.
Comment: Try blending a minute quantity with your favourite floral or wood. Foenum-graecum means Greek hay; so called because the seeds were used by the ancient Greeks to scent inferior hay.

Size 10ml.
 

Extrait: Nutmeg.
Production: Steam distillation from the seeds of myristica fragrans.
Origin: Indonesia.
Use in Perfumery: To add warmth and intrigue. Extensively used especially in mens fragrances and in smaller amount in many other blends. The oil has a fresh light warm sweet and woody odour with spicy undertones.
Safety: Do not exceed 0.5% in a composition.
Comment: Like many of the spices they bring their best when below the threshold of conscious detection.

Size 10ml.