A dark, resinous balsam with a smoky-sweet character reminiscent of benzoin crossed with leather and dry wood. Over time it settles into a warm, faintly animalic amber tone with a hint of vanilla-tinged smoke. Often used as a natural fixative in leather, chypre and amber accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 50.
The crude material is dark orange to dark brown in lumps of 2 to 5 cms. of diameter, mostly round but on one side flat with visible marks from the bark of the tree, showing bark surface and leaf base scars etc.
Acaroid contains more than 70% alcohol-soluble matter.
The odor of the resin is faintly balsamic-cinnamic and sweet.
Acaroid resinoid and Acaroid tincture are excellent fixatives for low-cost soap perfumes or industrial perfumes, particularly those of sweet-balsamic type.
From the above two natural materials are prepared tinctures or resinoids.