Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 383.
Tuberose Absolute from Pommade is a soft paste or semiliquid mass of dark orange to brown color. Tuberose Absolute from Concréte is a dark orange to brown colored, viscous liquid.
The odor is extremely heavy-sweet, floral-honey-like with a distinct oily-fatty undertone that is partly due to the method of production. Tuberose Absolute from Concréte has a heavy floral, almost nauseatingly sweet, heavy and somewhat spicy odor, reminiscent of honeysuckle, peru balsam, orange flower absolute, ylang ylang residue fractions, stephanotis flowers, etc.
Tuberose Absolute is used—when available and when the cost allows for such extravagance—in high-class floral perfumes of the heaviest and sweetest types: frangipanni, stephanotis, caprifolium, lilac, heliotrope, gardenia, violet, and in heavy Oriental types, opopanax, in fantasy perfumes, etc.
The Absolute from Concréte is produced by alcohol washing of the petroleum ether extract of the flowers from the tuberose plant. The Absolute from Pommade is produced by alcohol washing of the 'pommade' which is prepared from the flowers by enfleurage.
Restricted IFRA-standard materials typically present in this NCS at the listed concentrations.
| Constituent | CAS | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| Benzyl benzoate | 120-51-4 | 5.5% |
| Benzyl Salicylate | 118-58-1 | 3.6% |
| Methyl Eugenol | 93-15-2 | 1.8% |
| Isoeugenol | 97-54-1 | 1.5% |
| Benzyl Cyanide | 140-29-4 | 0.8% |
| Benzyl Alcohol | 100-51-6 | 0.5% |
| Eugenol | 97-53-0 | 0.5% |
| Farnesol | 4602-84-0 | 0.3% |
| Geraniol | 106-24-1 | 0.1% |