A soft, dry balsamic-resinous odor with a mild pine and woody character. Faintly sweet and warm, with an amber-like undertone. Used primarily as a fixative to add body and diffusion to woody, amber, and resin accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 806.
Almost colorless or pale straw-colored or pale amber-colored very viscous liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, but poorly soluble in diluted alcohol and propylene glycol. Miscible with most oils.
Fresh batches may be almost odorless but carry a faint odor or acquire an increasingly perceptible, piney-woody odor of considerable tenacity and with a balsamic sweetness.
This material was developed for purposes other than perfumery, but it has found some use in perfume compositions as a fixative/blender, at times plainly as a diluent to reduce the overall cost of the fragrance product. It finds still some use in Pine fragrances, Lavender, Fougéres, New Mown Hay, etc.
Produced from commercial Abietic acid by methyl esterification.