Experiment with Enigmatic Essential Oils and Make Fragrance of Your Choice
Each note of fragrance makes a difference in the creation of perfumes. Most woody oils provide the long-lasting, base, or middle notes, while fruity, herbaceous, or floral oils provide top or middle notes.
Woody Essential Oils
The well-known woody essential oils include cedarwood, rosewood, sandalwood, guaiac wood, ho wood, palo santo, and some others. Essential oil manufacturers provide two variants of cedarwood essential oil- Atlas Cedarwood and Himalayan Cedarwood. The aroma nuances of both cedarwood oils differ from each other.
Cedarwood (Atlas) essential oil is a golden yellow to orange/brown fluid with a woody, sweet scent. It offers strong middle notes in a perfume formulation. Cedarwood (Himalayan) essential oil has a woody, sweet aroma with smoky notes. The essential oil suppliers derive it from the wood of the Deodar tree. Some of them also provide balsamic Cedarwood (Texas) and less intensive cedarwood (Virginian) oils.
Sandalwood is an intensely rich, sweet, woody oil that provides long-lasting base notes. The perfume makers use it in luxurious, high-end perfumes. Other woody essential oils provide different woody fragrances and are available at diverse rates.
Floral Essential Oils
The perfumers cannot imagine perfume formulations without floral fragrances. The top floral fragrances include lavender, rose, jasmine, ylang-ylang, frangipani, German chamomile, and Roman chamomile essential oil.
Two Variants of chamomile - Roman and German- are mostly available with any essential oil supplier. Both of them vary in color, consistency, natural compounds, and properties. German chamomile oil is a deep blue to bluish-green, medium viscosity oil. It smells herbaceous, fruity with sweet undertones. Roman chamomile oil is a gray or pale blue, thin oil that smells crisp, sweet, fruity, and herbaceous.
Some suppliers also provide chamomile German oil derived from the flowers grown in Hungary, Bulgaria, and Nepal.
Citrus Essential Oils
Citrus essential oils provide lemony notes in a perfume blend. They include grapefruit, bergamot, lemongrass, orange, neroli, lime, lemon, and citronella essential oils. Citronella oil is a distinct citrus oil derived from grass ( and not from fruit rinds) clear, thin fluid with a citrusy, sweet, fruity smell. It offers top notes to a perfume formulation and goes well with herbaceous, floral, woody fragrances.
