Cedar
Cedar (cedrus), a dry, woody, aromatic, spicy and resinous fragrance character. Very popular base note. Cedar oil is extracted via steam distillation from the needle-shaped leaves of the tree.
Choya Nakh
Choya Nakh, A traditional Indian oil created from distilling roasted seashells. Imparts notes of salt, ocean, smoke, seaweed and moss.
Cumin
Cumin essential oil is extracted by steam distillation from the ripe seeds. It is a pale yellow or greenish liquid with a warm, soft, spicy-musky scent. It blends well with lavandin, rosemary, galbanum, rosewood, cardamom and oriental-type fragrances.
Clove Bud
Clove bud, essential oil by water distillation from the buds. Concrete, absolute, oleoresin produced from the bud in small quantity.Pale yellow liquid with a sweet spicy odour and a fruity fresh top note. The bud oil is favoured in perfumery work. It blends well with rose, lavender, vanillin, clary sage, bergamot, bay leaf, lavandin, allspice, ylang-ylang and cananga.
Cinnamon bark
Cinnamon bark is extracted by water or steam distillation from the dried inner bark. It is Pale to dark yellow liquid with a sweet, warm-spicy, dry, tenacious odour.
Cardamon
Cardamom oil is extracted by steam distillation from the dried ripe fruit (seeds). It is a colourless to pale yellow liquid with a sweet spicy, warming fragrance and a woody-balsamic undertone.
Cascalone
Cascalone is a fragrance ingredient which has been created or synthesised in a lab. It adds a fresh aquatic feel to fragrance compositions.
Citron
Citron, also known as cédrat in French, is an inedible citrus fruit. It gives off a dry, pulpy aroma.
Cassia
Cassia, also known as Chinese Cinnamon, is an aromatic bark with a very characteristic spicey and intense aroma.
Clementine
Clementine, a cross between mandarin and orange (also known as Christmas mandarin or tangerine), that gives off a sweet, juicy, fresh, citrus aroma. Clementine essential oil is extracted via cold expression from the outer peel of the fruit.
Cassis
Cassis, a deep rich and juicy scent of blackcurrants. Blackcurrant bud absolute is known as "bourgeons de cassis" in French.
Coumarin
Coumarin, a commonly used perfume compound that smells like vanilla. Usually derived from the tonka bean
Compound
Compound, the concentrated fragrance mixture before it is diluted to make the finished perfume. Also called perfume oil
Cloying
Cloying, an odour (or odor) that is excessively sticky sweet
Clary Sage
Clary Sage, the oil of this herb smells sweet to bittersweet, with nuances of amber, hay and tobacco.
Civet
Civet, a secretion from the anal gland of the Civet fox, giving an animalic, fecal character. No longer cultivated from animals, only found in synthetic format
Castoreum
Castoreum, an oily secretion from the abdominal sacs of beavers. Warm and animalic, a typical character in leather perfumes. These days it is mainly used in synthetic form