Intensely spicy, warm and pungent with a distinctly sweaty, cumin-seed character. The absolute is richer and more resinous than the essential oil, with earthy, faintly animalic undertones that linger. Even trace amounts read unmistakably as cumin.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 138.
Cumin Absolute is a dark olive-brown or dark yellow, viscous liquid.
Cumin Absolute has a powerful, but delicately mellow and round, green-spicy odor, very closely reminiscent of the odor of the crushed seed from which it is derived.
The extracted product seems to contain more of the sweet notes from the extractive plant matter than does the essential oil, making the absolute superior to the oil in flavor work.
In perfumes, the intense color of the absolute is only a minor drawback, considering the minute amounts necessary for obtaining green-spicy effects.
The advantage of its use in flavor compositions, particularly in extracts for pickles, is obvious.
An Oleoresin can be prepared the usual way and by alcohol-washing of the oleoresin an Absolute of Cumin is produced.