A soft, mildly peppery balsamic oleoresin with a warm, slightly sweet woody character. Dries down to a smooth, transparent amber-woody base with a faint dry-resin nuance, less sharp than elemi and less vanillic than benzoin.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 133.
Copaiba Balsam is a more or less viscous, brownish-yellow or grayish-greenish yellow liquid which dries to a hard and brittle resin upon exposure to air.
The odor of the oleoresin is very faint, mild-woody, slightly spicy-peppery and modestly tenacious.
The flavor is bitter and irritant.
Copaiba Balsam is often used as a fixative in low-cost violet and wood perfumes, for lavender or fougères in detergent perfumes, industrial perfumes, etc.