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Notes in a perfume are single aspects of the scent. This is similar to how musical notes combine to make a chord.

Notes are not always indicative of a specific ingredient, just the single aspect of the overall scent.

• Accord - A balanced blend of notes that adds up to more than just the sum of its parts
• Agrestic - denotes herbal and/or rustic family of notes
• Allspice - cinnaminic, clove, spices, wood
• Amber - an accord of incense-related notes, usually some (or all!) of the following: vanilla, labdanum, benzoin (styrax).
• Ambergris - oceanic, animalic, musk
• Amyris - deep, earthy, wood, animalic
• Animalic - aroma ingredients that were originally sourced from living animals, almost all of these are now synthetic
• Apricot - fruity, extremely sweet, juicy, jam, honey
• Beeswax - earthy, mild, waxy, resinous
• Birch Leaf - spicy, green, forest, eucalyptus-like without the camphor, refreshing
• Black Agar (synthetic aloeswood) - extremely deep and smoky, incense, dark wood
• Black Leather - sharper and cleaner than Leather
• Blond Wood - light, transparent wood notes
• Cardamom - heady, spicy, warm, often used in tea
• Cashmeran - warm, soft, clean fur-like musk, spicy
• Cedar - deep, wood, sharp, almost animalic
• Cherry Blossom - transparent, sweet, green, fruity
• Cinnamon - bright, spice, sweet, dominant top note unless composed carefully
• Clary Sage – clean, green, diffusive, smokey, salty used to create some synthetic ambergris
• Clove - sharp, spicy, pepper, wood
• Clover - soft, sweet, green, bright, grass
• Coumarin - cherry, almonds, hay, not to be confused with the medication Coumadin
• Dark Rum - deep, smoky, booze
• Fig – warm, juicy, honey, wood, fruit, cinnaminic
• Fir Needles – forest, green, juicy, jam, camphor, Christmas tree
• Frankincense - warm, sharp, resinous, incense
• Freesia - clean, white, floral, peppery
• Geranium - leafy, floral, rose-like
• Iso E Super – warm, transparent, wood, skin enhancer, amber
• Juniper - spicy, gin, green, forest
• Kephalis - warm, transparent, wood, incense, amber
• Labdanum - resinous, amber, incense
• Leather - sharp, deep, earthy, also see Black Leather
• Myrrh - deep, resinous, earthy, sweet, dry, leathery
• Neroli - citrus, green, floral, wood
• Oak Moss - deep, earthy, moss, forest
• Ozone/Air - reminiscent of clean, odorless air, meant to invoke a sensation rather than a specific odor
• Patchouli - earthy, sweet, oily, herbal
• Pear - sweet, juicy, fruity, wood
• Plumeria (Frangipani) - fruity, floral,
• Rose - deep, floral, fruity, jam, spicy
• Rum - sweet, booze, vanillic
• Sandalwood - warm, wood, deep, may have a smoke-like aspect to it
• Styrax - resinous, incense, warm, vanillic, cinnaminic, amber
• Thyme - herbal, agrestic, spicy
• Tomato Leaf - green, earthy, sharp, astringent
• Tulip - floral, white musk, peppery
• Vanilla - Full, warm, resinous, sweet
• Vetiver - earthy, sharp, deep, grass
• Violet Leaf - green, leafy, earthy, powdery
• White Musk - a plant-based musk, cleaner and brighter than animalic musks, can mimic clean skin, can enhance the scent of the wearer's own skin as well