Rich, sweet balsamic resin with a pronounced vanilla-like character and a soft powdery warmth. Siam benzoin is smoother and more vanillic than Sumatra, with a creamy almond-caramel facet and a subtle cinnamic sweetness that persists as a cozy, honeyed backdrop.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 73.
Benzoin Siam comes in variable sizes of pebble-like, often tear-shaped pieces, hard and brittle, rarely agglutinated. The individual pieces are yellow-orange or yellowish-brown, and a characteristic feature is the almost white or cream-colored fracture.
The odor is pleasant, sweet-balsamic with a distinct note of vanillin.
Its taste is aromatic but somewhat acrid-bitter and biting.
Selected tears or tears No. 1 are considered superior for perfumery purposes.