A dry, leafy green absolute with the unmistakable character of brewed black tea leaves — dusty, slightly smoky, with hay and tobacco facets. Over time it settles into a soft, earthy-woody warmth with a faint bitter-sweet edge reminiscent of dried leaves.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 373.
Viscous, amber-colored liquid
Faint, but rich and delicately dry, somewhat herbaceous, yet sweet and woody odor
Being of comparatively low flavor strength, the alcoholic tea leaf absolute finds very little use in flavors.
Tea Leaf Absolute is used in perfumery to produce sweet-herbaceous notes in certain floral perfumes, e.g. jasmin, orange blossom, gardenia, sweet pea, freesia, and to produce new effects in woody or aldehydic perfumes of non-floral type in general.
By hydrocarbon solvent extraction of the leaves, a concrete is obtained which in turn yields an absolute by alcohol extraction.