A relatively obscure absolute from the jambolan (Java plum) tree. In isolation it presents a dark fruity-green character with a soft spicy-balsamic undertone and a faint woody, slightly winey nuance. Overall it feels natural and rounded rather than sharp, with a jammy stone-fruit facet fading into a resinous leafy drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 158.
Eugenia jambolana oil is a yellowish to greenish-olive, blue-olive or brownish, fairly viscous liquid.
Its odor is dry, woody, strong and spicy-earthy like a very poor patchouli oil with a cade-like topnote. There is an undertone with some similarity to clove leaf oil, but a strong and heavy terpene note covers the sweet spicy odor. The dryout is terpinolene-like, somewhat spicy-woody, rather dry. There is a peculiar bitterness through all the stages of evaporation of this oil.
Eugenia Jambolana oil is used locally in India as a mild antiseptic and as a perfume material in low-cost soap perfumes.
Distillation is carried out in various places all over India.