Warm, resinous and balsamic with a distinctive leathery, ambery character. Opens with a slightly medicinal, herbal-piney facet before settling into a rich, dry-sweet amber-labdanum warmth with subtle animalic and honeyed undertones.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 118.
Cistus Oil is an amber-colored or dark yellow, viscous liquid.
Its greater solubility makes it interesting for colognes where it blends extremely well with citrus oils, sage clary and oakmoss products.
Cistus Oil has a very powerful and tenacious odor: warm and sweet, yet dry and reminiscent of ambra in its somewhat animal notes.
The oil is used in modern aldehydic or ambre types of perfumes, in Oriental bases, and in numerous fantasy bouquets where it will lend tenacity, warm tonalities and an intriguingly spicy-animal note.
Steam distillation of the entire plant is carried out in Spain.