Calling all fragrance experts!

[soaper]

Here's my story:

I've been making CP soap for years as a hobby and for gifts. Recently, I was shopping in a town nearby and came across a soap store. Of course, I went in and bought a soap called "sweet almond." The smell is AMAZING! It smells sort of like almond but there's something different about it.

Here is the description on the soap:

Product Description
This bar combines the wonderful balancing virtues of the olive oil as well as the comfort of a sweet and nutty scent, with notes of vanilla.

3oz bar

Contains: olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, water, lye. Aromatic oil: sweet almond. Green oxide (natural pigment).

I went back yesterday to try to find out what scent the woman uses. She wasn't very specific. I said "this smells wonderful. What scent do you use?" She said "Sweet almond oil." And I said "Sweet almond oil has a scent??" And she said "Well, what you're smelling is marzipan, but yes, sweet almond oil has a scent."

That's all the info I have. The website says they are all natural soaps and are scented with essential oil. Anyone have a guess what I could try?? Do you think she would tell me WHERE she orders her scents from? That might help. I MUST have this smell in my soap!!!!!!!

 

[Paintguru]

Well marzipan is made from almonds, so it may be as simple as sweet almond oil in her product.

 

[100%Natural]

I use Sweet Almond Oil in all of my products and it DOES NOT have a scent anywhere near it so she's not being truthful IMO. It is more than likely a FO that she's used. And if she's using marzipan, she's not labelling her products correctly and I would doubt that the scent would carry through regardless. I have no experience with marzipan so I could be completely wrong there.

 

[100%Natural]

The only EO that I know of that is an almond product is Bitter Almond, but again I haven't used this one either so can't attest to how well it comes through in soap.

 

[soaper]

She advertises on her website that she uses ONLY essential oils in her products and that they are all natural.

This really has me perplexed. I also have sweet almond oil and I don't smell a thing in it!

 

[manwithbeers]

If she is using Essential Oil her labels are not correct either. I also suspect a marzipan Fragrance Oil.

 

[squigglz]

Well, aromatic oil (as she has it listed on her label) is just a fancy way to say 'Fragrance oil'. I've not heard of a Sweet Almond EO, and indeed, almonds have an almost bitter smell so I have no idea how that would even work. Unless she blended it with something, which is entirely possible.

 

[savonierre]

she is trying to pull the wool over people's eyes...SAO does not scent soap..

 

[dagmar88]

http://www.greatcakessoapworks.com/.../bitter-almond-essential-oil-is-it-skin-safe/