Ammoniac gum has a dry, bitter-balsamic resinous character with a faintly animalic and slightly leathery undertone. It smells of aged gum and old wood with a soft musky-spicy warmth, dusty rather than sweet.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 58.
It is a pale yellow to pale orange colored, mobile liquid.
The natural material contains about 75% alcohol-soluble substances, including about 3% essential oil.
It has a penetrating sulphuraceous-mercaptanelike odor, reminiscent of onions.
The essential oil could find some use in flavor work for meat sauces, seasonings, etc.
Tincture of ammoniac gum has some fixative value and imparts a certain animal note to perfumes. It blends well with rose, jasmin, sweet wood oils, heavy oriental perfumes, etc.
The essential oil could find some use in flavor work for meat sauces, seasonings, etc.
The essential oil of Ammoniac Gum is produced by steam distillation of the crude botanical.