A soft, dry balsamic wood with a gentle peppery lift and mild resinous sweetness. Less sharp than black pepper and less sticky than benzoin — sits between the two, adding smooth warmth and a subtle amber-woody body. Long-lasting and quietly fixative on the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 134.
Copaiba Balsam Oil is a colorless or pale yellow to yellow-green or bluish, very mobile oil.
The odor is similar to that of the balsam, but much milder, sweeter, almost creamy-balsamic with a faint peppery-spicy undertone. There are notes which resemble furfuryl alcohol and cadinene, others may remind of the notes in Peru balsam oil. A very peculiar and complex, but very faint odor.
Copaiba Oil finds some use in perfumery, but its fixative value is negligible and its contribution to the overall odor of a fragrance is questionable. Its main use is that of a blender-modifier. It blends well with cananga, ylang-ylang, heliotropine, hydroxy-citronellal, isoeugenol, vanillin, ionones and methylionones, sandalwood oil, jasmin absolute, amylcinnamic aldehyde, etc. The oil is used in pine fragrances, woody bases, violet perfumes, spice fragrances, etc., and its low cost and good availability makes it popular for some of these purposes.