Top note: Elemi, Black pepper, Rose Middle note: Labdanum resinoid, Violet, Saffron Base note: Sandalwood, White Musk, Amber, Agarwood
Elemi: Elemi is a tree native to Philippines. The tree produces a resin, which is a pale yellow substance from which aromatic elemi oil is steam distilled. The same resin is also used as a herbal remedy from bronchitis, cough, mature skin, scars and wounds.
Black Pepper:Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit, known as a peppercorn when dried, is approximately 5 millimetres (0.20 in) in diameter, dark red when fully mature, and, like all drupes, contains a single seed.he outer fruit layer, left on black pepper contains important odour-contributing terpenes including pinene, sabinene, limonene, caryophyllene, and linalool, which give citrusy, woody, and floral notes.
Labdanum resinoid:The cistus plant is a small shrub from the Cistaceae or rock-rose family. There are approximately twenty different species, growing all over the Mediterranean. Labdanum originates from the western Mediterranean, but can also be found in America.It is well known in aromatherapy and folk medicine as fungicidal and antibacterial.
Violet:Violet (Viola odorata), also called Sweet Violet, grows in the Mediterranean regions and Asia Minor. Its delicate purple, white, or variegated flowers appear early in spring, even before trees grow leaves. Violet is well known for its sweet floral scent, but also for its wide variety of therapeutic properties: It helps fighting colds, asthma, rheumatic pains and a range of infections.
Rose:A woody perennial plant of the genus Rosa, Rose has been extensively used in perfumery owing to its sweet incense. There are over 100 species. Most species belong to Asia, with a few native to Europe, North America, and northwest Africa. Species, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and often are fragrant.Rose perfumes are made from attar of roses or rose oil, which is a mixture of volatile essential oils obtained by steam distilling the crushed petals of roses. An associated product is rose water which is used for cooking, cosmetics, medicine and in religious practices. The production technique originally started in Persia then spread through Arabia and India, and more recently into eastern Europe.
Saffron: Saffron is a highly aromatic and an expensive spice by weight, is known as “King of spices” and “red gold” and utilized for cooking, staining, medicine, cosmetics and some other purposes. It is a native plant of Southeast Asia.Its odor profile is bittersweet, leathery, soft and intimate, with an earthy base note. In Europe saffron threads were a chief component of an aromatic oil known as crocinum, which comprised such motley ingredients as alkanet, dragon's blood (for colour), and wine (again for colour). Crocinum was applied as a perfume to hair. Another preparation involved mixing saffron with wine to produce a viscous yellow spray; It is also used as an air freshener.
Amber:The classical amber in perfumery is a sweet, rich accord of labdanum and vanilla. In contrast to the marine and animalic ambergris, it is a pure fantasy accord like fougère or chypre, and despite the fact that its name evokes the fabled material, ambergris, it does not attempt to reproduce this animalic marine scent. Perfumery amber is so called, because the golden color of the blend resembles the semi-precious amber jewel. Sweet and voluptuous, perfumery amber is quite versatile, and whenever one encounters a fragrance named Amber or Ambre, it is likely to be a warm, vanilla and labdanum based blend.
Agarwood:Agarwood/Oud is said to be the most expensive wood in the world. There are many names for the resinous, fragrant heartwood produced primarily by trees in the genus Aquilaria.An important use of oud is the production of incense. Agarwood is an aphrodisiac, both in oil form, and as incense. These are generally topical uses but the oil is also sold in Vietnamese pharmacies for internal use with the same goal.
White musk: White musks are a class of synthetic aromachemicals to emulate the scent of deer musk or other natural musk.
Synthetic musks have a clean, smooth and sweet scent lacking the fecal/"animalic" notes of natural musks and are sometimes attributed as having notes of blackberry, ambrette or ambergris. These compounds are essential in modern perfumery and form the base note foundations of most perfume formulas. Most, if not all musk fragrance used in perfumery today is synthetic.
Sandalwood: The classic oriental woody note, milky, soft, sturdy, rich, with a green top note and a satisfying lingering scent. The best quality used to be the Mysore sandalwood variety from India, nowadays greatly reduced to the point of extinction from perfumery due to shortage of the natural material (the species is protected from harvesting because it's an endangered species). Australian sandalwood and New Caledonian sandalwood are different species with a harsher odor profile.Sandalwood oil gives a sweet and woody fragrance and is one of the most valuable ingredients. Sandalwood is obtained from the trees of the genus Santalum. The wood is heavy and yellow in color, as well as fine-grained.