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Notes, Ingredients & Accords

All Aroma Maven articles in the Notes, Ingredients & Accords category.

Spicy Notes: Cardamom, Pepper, and Cinnamon in Scent

Spicy notes add warmth, lift, and energy to fragrance, from airy pink pepper to cozy cinnamon. They also come with real safety limits, since some spic

Aquatic and Marine Notes: How the Ocean Is Bottled

Marine and aquatic notes smell like sea air and clean water, yet almost none of them come from the ocean. They are built from synthetic molecules, and

Notes, Ingredients & Accords

What Is Ambergris and Where Does It Come From?

Ambergris is one of perfumery's strangest treasures, a waxy material that begins inside a sperm whale and ages at sea into a prized fixative. Its lega