Fresh, peppery-citrus resin with a lemony-pine sparkle over a soft balsamic base. Opens bright and terpenic — reminiscent of frankincense crossed with lemon peel — then dries down to a mild, slightly sweet resinous warmth.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 151.
Crude Elemi is a semi-solid, pale-yellow, waxy-honeylike mass, usually containing numerous wood splinters, bark pieces, insect debris, dirt and earth.
The odor is very fresh, terpeney, peppery-lemony, with a woody-balsamic background note.
Elemi is one of the most inexpensive sources of fixative resinoids. It is a very interesting fixative for artificial bergamot, lemon, lime, etc., as well as for the various verbena compositions, e.g. eau de verveine bases and other cologne types. In lavender-colognes, fougères, spicy colognes, etc., it simultaneously introduces freshness and fixation.
Elemi Resinoid is prepared by extracting the crude elemi with a volatile solvent, and removing the latter in vacuum after proper filtration. Acetone gives a very high yield and is a very good solvent for elemi.