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2. Fragrance oil - Wikipedia

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   Scented candles are produced when fragrance oils are combined with hot wax like paraffin, forming a homogenous solution. [citation needed] Fragrance oils are retained like a sponge when the wax is cooled to room temperature. Lighting the candle wick increases the wax temperature, gradually releasing an aroma through the evaporation of the ...

3. History of candle making - Wikipedia

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   'Colonial'-style tapered candle molds. With the growth of the whaling industry in the 18th century, spermaceti, an oil that comes from a cavity in the head of the sperm whale, became a widely used substance for candle making. The wax was made by crystallizing the oil, and was the first candle substance to become available in mass quantities.

4. Lavender oil - Wikipedia

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   A glass vial of lavender oil. Lavender oil is an essential oil obtained by distillation from the flower spikes of certain species of lavender. There are over 400 types of lavender worldwide with different scents and qualities. Two forms of lavender oil are distinguished, lavender flower oil, a colorless oil, insoluble in water, having a density ...

5. Perfume - Wikipedia

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   The scents in the top and middle notes are influenced by the base notes; conversely, the scents of the base notes will be altered by the types of fragrance materials used as middle notes. Manufacturers who publish perfume notes typically do so with the fragrance components presented as a fragrance pyramid , [ 37 ] using imaginative and abstract ...

6. List of essential oils - Wikipedia

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   Angelica root oil, distilled from the Angelica archangelica. Has a green musky scent. Anise oil, from the Pimpinella anisum, rich odor of licorice. Armoise/Mugwort oil A green and camphorous essential oil. Asafoetida oil, used to flavor food. Attar or ittar, used in perfumes for fragrances such as rose and sandlewood.

7. Aroma compound - Wikipedia

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   Fragrance bottles. An aroma compound, also known as an odorant, aroma, fragrance or flavoring, is a chemical compound that has a smell or odor. For an individual chemical or class of chemical compounds to impart a smell or fragrance, it must be sufficiently volatile for transmission via the air to the olfactory system in the upper part of the nose.