A dense, dark, and unusual absolute — deeply woody-earthy with a bitter camphoraceous edge and a dry hay-like undertone. Develops into a leathery, slightly balsamic dryout with faint tobacco and rooty facets. Powerful, tenacious, and challenging to use — often described as reminiscent of dry cellars, aged wood, or medicinal roots.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 150.
Elecampane Absolute is a dark olive-green or brown, semi-solid mass which is hardly pourable at room temperature.
Its odor is very soft, woody-rootlike, slightly fatty-sweet or oily, extremely tenacious.
The material blends well in perfumes with ionones, methylionones, heliotropine, sandalwood, bergamot, orris products, cistus oil, labdanum products, cypress oil, etc. Elecampane Absolute produces interesting notes in ambre bases, woody-floral or oriental bases, heavy fragrances.
An oleoresin or a concrete can be produced by volatile solvent extraction of the roots of Inula Helenium. The concrete is further processed to an alcohol-soluble absolute by the conventional method.