Gorean Scents
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Blue Climber: A vine-like plant with large blue bracts among its common leaves, and small yellow flowers. Light scent.
Desert Veminium: Is similar to the Thentis Veminium but is purplish. Deep heady scent, often used to scent water for cleaning
Dina: Is a small, tiny, rose-like flower, lovely, multiply petaled, short-stemmed, and blooming in a turf of green leaves. Rose-like scent, light.
Flaminiums: Is scarlet, large-budded and five-petaled. Much like plumeria, strong exotic scent.
Flower Tree: Has lovely, dangling loops of interwoven blossoms hang from curved branches. Light freesia-like scent.
Flowers of the Vine Sea: Beautiful flowers, the perfume of which is sweet, pervasive, heavy and quite likely causes psychosis.
Golden Cup: Its petals will close if it is going to rain. Lily-like scent, different based on color.
Larma Blossom: A beautiful, colorful and fragrant flower. Medium, citrus-like scent.
Lirillium: A white shrub flower. Strong, exotic jasmine-like scent.
Rence Flowers: Has a flowered head which is a tuft of stamens and narrow petals. Used as an applicator, it's scent is negligible.
Scent Tree: Its lavender leaves will curl if it is going to rain. Herbaceous, deep, and heady.
Talender: Is a beautiful, delicate, yellow-petaled flower, often associated with feminine love, beauty and passion. Light, floral and spicy - use with caution!
Teriotrope: A beautiful, colorful and fragrant flower. Jasmine-like though lighter and more subdued.
Thentis Veminium: Is a kind of delicate, five softly petaled bluish wild flower grown on the lower slopes of the Thentis range. A good filler, light and citrusy.
Tor Shrub: Known as the bright shrub, or the shrub of light because of its abundant, bright flowers, either yellow or white. Heady, strong and spicy.
Veminia: A beautiful, colorful and fragrant flower. Water-soluble, best for baths and room fragrances.
Water Flowers: Its blooms are yellow and white, rises from flat, green pads in shallow ponds. Like lotus, deep watery florals.
White Lirillium: Is a shrub flower, white and plentiful. Spicy, amber-like quality.
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Earth scents imported by the Ships of Acquisition
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Amber: A heavy, full bodied, powdery, warm fragrance note. Amber oil comes from the Baltic amber tree.
Bergamot: The tangy oil expressed from the non-edible bergamot orange, grown mainly in Italy.
Calone: An aroma that adds a “sea breeze” or marine note to fragrances.
Castoreum: A secretion from the Castor beaver used to impart a leathery aroma to a fragrance.
Clary sage: The oil of this herb smells sweet to bittersweet, with nuances of amber, hay, and tobacco.
Galbanum: A gum resin that imparts a green smell.
Heliotrope: Flowers of the family heliotropium, which have a strong, sweet vanilla-like fragrance with undertones of almond.
Muguet: French for Lily of the Valley. One of the three most used florals in perfumery.
Musk: Natural musk comes from the glands of the musk deer.
Neroli: A citrus oil distilled from the blossoms of either the sweet or bitter orange tree.
Oakmoss: Derived from a lichen that grows on oak trees, heavy and oriental at first, becoming refined and earthy when dried, reminiscent of bark, seashore, and foliage.
Osmanthus: A flowering tree native to China, valued for its delicate fruity apricot aroma.
Patchouli: A bushy shrub originally from Malaysia and India. Has a musty-sweet, spicy aroma.
Sandalwood: An oil from the Indian sandal tree. One of the oldest known perfumery ingredients.
Tonka Bean: Derived from a plant native to Brazil. Has an aroma of vanilla with strong hints of cinnamon, cloves, and almonds.
Vanilla: Derived from the seed pod of the vanilla orchid.
Vetiver: A grass with heavy, fibrous roots, which are used to distill an oil that smells of the moist earth with woody, earthy, leather and smoky undertones.