Essential Oils

Citronella Java (Cymbopogon winterjanus): Citronella has a fresh and sweet, lemony aroma. It is used in bug repellent lotions, candles and flea shampoos. It is native to Sri Lanka, where it is cultivated at the southern-most tip of the country.

Cinnamon Leaf Ceylon (Cinnomomum zeylanicum): This essential oil is used in perfumery for its warm-spicy notes, and its woody-oriental type notes. It blends well with vanilla. Originating in Sri Lanka, Madagascar, South India, Burma, Indochina, and the Comoro Islands. Cinnamon Leaf Ceylon is also cultivated in Jamaica and Africa.

Cinnamon Cassia Chinese (Cinnamon cassia): This oil is warm, spicy, slightly woody, balsamic and intensely sweet. Its dark color can sometimes cause discoloring in soaps and other perfumed products. Native to the southeastern parts of China, Cinnamon Cassia is also found to the lesser extent in Vietnam and India.

Cedarwood Virginia (Juniperus virginiana): Cedarwood Virginia is woody with a sweet, mild balsamic scent. It is used extensively in soap perfumery as a fixative, but can also be used in room sprays and household products. It is a native of North America, especially the mountainous regions east of the Rocky Mountains.

Cedarwood Texas Lite (Juniperus mexicana or ashei): This cedarwood oil has a pleasant, sweet woody scent. Its residual aroma is balsamic-woody-sweet, and blends well with musk, patchouli, pine, and vetiver. Cedarwood Texas Light originates in Mexico, the southwestern USA, and Central America. As its name implies, it is produced mainly in Texas.

Cedarwood Atlas (Cedrus atlantica): Cedarwood is a pleasant addition to any men's fragrance blend. It has a warm, woody smell that blends nicely with other woody oils, such as vetiver and sandalwood. It blends equally well with citrus oils, floral oils such as jasmine and neroli, basil, eucalyptus and chamomile oils. Cedarwood Atlas is named for its native region, the Atlas Mountains of Algeria. The oil is produced mainly in Morocco.

Cedarleaf (Juniperus plicata): This oil has a sharp, fresh, camphoraceous scent. It is a low-cost and powerful perfume ingredient, commonly used for room sprays. The green, sweet herbaceous, medicinal, and camphoraceous-minty notes blend well with pine, citrus, rosemary, and wood notes. Cedarleaf is native to North America, and is cultivated in Canada.

Cardamom Oil (Elettaria cardamomum): Aromatic at first, Cardamom Oil is warm and spicy, with a penetrating camphoraceous, cinelole-like medicinal smell. It becomes balsamic-woody, increasingly sweet, and almost floral. The scent is tenacious, with a delightful balsamic-floral undertone. It blends well with bergamot, olibanum, ylang ylang, and cedarwood. It is native to the tropical regions of Asia, and is cultivated extensively in southern India and in Sri Lanka.

Cananga Oil (Cananga odorata): Cananga Oil has a tenacious scent; a combination of sweet-floral and balsamic. The initial notes are woody-leathery with a fresh floral undertone, but much heaver than Ylang Ylang. It is quite useful in soap perfumery and men's fragrances. Cananga Oil is native to tropical Asia, and is distributed from Java, Malaysia, the Philippines, and the islands of the Moluccas.

Bois de Rose (Rosewood) (Aniba roseodora): Rosewood has a beautiful, sweet-woody, somewhat floral-spicy scent, and is great in soaps where strong top notes are used. It blends well with florals, citrus oils, sandalwood, clary sage, and bergamot, among others. It is native to the Amazon region, where its main producers are in Peru and Brazil.

Bergamot Italian (Citrus bergamia): A favorite of perfumers, Bergamot has a lovely light, fresh, floral citrus scent. It blends nicely with neroli, cypress, juniper, geranium, rose, ylang ylang, and other florals. Originally and extensively cultivated in southern Italy, it is also commercially grown on the Ivory Coast of Africa. Our Bergamot oil is bergaptene-free.

Benzoin Siam Pourable Resin (Styrax tonkinensis): Benzoin liquid is extracted by making an incision in the bark of the tree; the liquid is left to harden, and it is then collected. Along with the Absolute (above), the resin is native to the same portions of Asia, has the same scent, and is commonly used as a fixative in perfumes.

Benzoin Siam Absolute (Styrax tonkinensis): This is a rich oil with a vanilla-like scent - penetrating, warming and energizing. As its name implies, Benzion Siam is native to Southeast Asia. The regions of production include Thailand, Java, Malaysia, and Sumatra.

Bay Oil (Pimenta racemosa): This oil is fresh, spicy, and somewhat medicinal, but has a lasting, sweet-balsamic undertone. It is used extensively in hair products, after-shave lotions, and in men's fragrances. Bay Oil is native to the West Indies.

Basil Comores (Ocimum basilicum): Basil is sweet, spicy, slightly green, and fresh, with a faint balsamic-woody undertone. It blends nicely with rosemary and citrus oils. Now growing wild all over the Mediterranean and in other parts of Europe, it is native to Asia, and has a long history of traditional medical use in India.

Anise Oil ( Pimpinella anisum) :  The oil of this aromatic seed has a scent similar to licorice - an intensely sweet and clean odor. When used in soap, anise is said to mask the human scent, making it a great fisherman's or hunter's soap. Anise Oil is native to Greece and Egypt, but is now widely cultivated in India and China.

Amyris Oil ( Amyris balsamifera): This slightly oily-sweet, pale yellow liquid is woody-balsamic and occasionally displays a faintly peppery top note. It has extensive applications as a mild blender in perfume, blending well with spicy or woody notes, and light florals. Amyris Oil was originally cultivated in Haiti, but is now grown in Jamaica, South and Central America, and in other tropical zones all over the world.

CATALOG OF ESSENTIAL OILS

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Although there are many essential oils available throughout the world, we only deal with those we need to use in our formulations. Consequently, we only offer for sale the essential oils we use. Quality is our primary concern, and we believe the essential oils we use and sell are among the best on the market. You will most likely find a better selection of essential oils by dealing with a specialty reseller, but you'll never find better quality than what we offer. The listing below provides some information about the essential oils we normally have available. The listing of actual oils available changes as needed, so be sure to ask your Customer Service agent if we are currently stocking the oil you need.

ssential oils are considered by many to be the hormones or life-force of a plant.  They are the natural oils extracted from a variety of plant parts, such as the flowers, leaves, wood, resin and twigs.  The method of extraction depends on the part of the plant from which the oil is being taken, and is a highly specialized process.  The plants themselves come from all over the world.  Aroma Creations manufactures scented oils from a variety of ingredients, both natural and artificial, and many of our compounded fragrances contain a variety of these essential oils. Essential oils help to give our creations a more realistic scent.

ssential oils are considered by many to be the hormones or life-force of a plant