Essential Oil Library
Comprehensive profiles with therapeutic properties, safety data, chemistry, dilution rates, and application guidance.
Agarwood (Oud)
Aquilaria malaccensis
The most expensive essential oil in the world, formed only when the Aquilaria tree is infected by a specific mold. Called "liquid gold" — revered across Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, and Christian traditions. Deep, complex, and transformative.
Ambrette Seed CO2
Abelmoschus moschatus
A precious musky-floral CO2 extract rich in ambrettolide, prized in perfumery as a rare plant-based musk and in aromatherapy for its emotional grounding effects.
Amyris
Amyris balsamifera
Often called "West Indian Sandalwood" though not botanically related to sandalwood. An affordable, gentle base note oil with calming and grounding properties. Excellent fixative in blends.
Angelica Root
Angelica archangelica
A powerful, earthy essential oil with strong grounding and restorative properties. Known as the "Oil of Angels" for its protective and strengthening qualities. Phototoxic — avoid sun exposure after topical use.
Beeswax Absolute
Cera alba
Luxury solvent-extracted absolute from pure beeswax; offers sweet, honeyed, balsamic base notes prized for anchoring natural perfumes with hive-warm depth.
Benzoin
Styrax benzoin
A warm, vanilla-like resinoid with deeply comforting and soothing properties, traditionally used as a fixative in perfumery and for respiratory and skin healing.
Blue Cypress
Callitris intratropica
A uniquely blue essential oil from the Australian outback, used for millennia by Aboriginal peoples. The blue color comes from guaiazulene. Excellent anti-inflammatory and skin-healing properties with a gentle safety profile.
Buddha Wood
Eremophila mitchellii
Sacred Australian aboriginal wood oil, known as false sandalwood or rosewood; deep, smoky-earthy, and profoundly grounding, rich in rare sesquiterpenes and eremophilones.
Cacao CO2
Theobroma cacao
Rich, dark-chocolate aromatic extract produced by supercritical CO2 from roasted cacao beans; prized perfumery base note evoking warmth, comfort, and sensuality.
Cedarwood Atlas
Cedrus atlantica
A warm, grounding wood oil with calming and skin-healing properties, traditionally used for meditation, respiratory support, and hair care.
Cedarwood Himalayan
Cedrus deodara
Rich balsamic wood oil from the sacred deodar cedar of the Himalayas; lymphatic, grounding and treasured in Ayurveda for respiratory and meditative use.
Cedarwood Virginia
Juniperus virginiana
American Eastern Red Cedar heartwood oil, valued for grounding effect, insect repellent action and cedrol-rich chemistry. A true juniper, not a cedar botanically.
Frankincense
Boswellia carterii
One of the most ancient and revered aromatic resins, prized for its meditative, skin-rejuvenating, and immune-supporting properties.
Frankincense Frereana
Boswellia frereana
Rare Somalian Maydi frankincense, traditionally chewed as natural gum; lacks boswellic acids but offers refined bright resinous character valued in perfumery and meditation.
Frankincense Sacra
Boswellia sacra
The legendary sacred frankincense of Arabia, prized since antiquity; alpha-pinene dominant with exceptional meditative, immune and skin-regenerating properties.
Frankincense Serrata
Boswellia serrata
Indian frankincense (Salai) with the strongest anti-inflammatory reputation of the boswellia species; high in alpha-thujene and widely used in Ayurveda.
Katrafay
Cedrelopsis grevei
Sesquiterpene-rich Malagasy bark oil traditionally used for fatigue, muscular pain and convalescence; powerfully anti-inflammatory and analgesic.
Myrrh
Commiphora myrrha
An ancient healing resin oil with exceptional wound-healing and anti-inflammatory properties, traditionally paired with frankincense for spiritual and medicinal use.
Nagarmotha
Cyperus scariosus
Also called Cypriol, this classical Indian attar and dhoop base is a deeply grounding lymphatic and anti-inflammatory oil with exceptional perfumery value.
Oakmoss
Evernia prunastri
A rich, complex absolute extracted from tree lichen. Prized in perfumery as a fixative with a deep, forest-like aroma. Known skin sensitizer — use at very low concentrations per IFRA guidelines.
Opoponax
Commiphora guidottii
Sweet balsamic resinous oil from the Commiphora tree, often called sweet myrrh, prized in perfumery and ancient incense traditions for its warm honeyed character.
Patchouli
Pogostemon cablin
A rich, musky essential oil with a distinctive earthy aroma. Valued for skincare, emotional grounding, and its natural insect-repellent properties. Improves with age like fine wine.
Peru Balsam
Myroxylon balsamum var. pereirae
Rich, vanilla-cinnamon balsamic oil obtained from wounded tree bark, valued for wound healing and respiratory use but a significant known skin sensitizer.
Sandalwood
Santalum album
One of the most prized and expensive essential oils, renowned for its rich, creamy-woody aroma and its meditative, skin-healing, and emotionally grounding properties.
