Warm, pungent spice with a fresh, almost lemony-terpenic lift on top and a deeper rooty, slightly earthy-woody body. Richer and more tenacious than ginger CO2 or essential oil, with a candied-rhizome sweetness that emerges in the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 179.
Usually, it is a viscous orange-brown or dark, yellow-brown liquid, just pourable at room temperature.
Its odor is best described as being a very true reproduction of that of ginger rhizome, concentrated many times. The sweetness is emphasized, the rich, warm spiciness is predominant, and the tenacity is only modest. The typical lemon-orange-like topnotes are accentuated by the fresh, slightly camphoraceous-warm and later sweet-woody body-notes of this absolute.
The flavor is equally warm, but also pungent-spicy, truly representative of the candied rhizome.
In perfumes, Ginger Absolute may introduce the most interesting and surprising notes in high-class lotion perfumes, etc., or in the so-called ‘men’s fragrances’ in the spicy series, after-shaves, etc. It blends excellently with animal notes and with woody notes, with floral notes and in many types of modern fantasy fragrances.
Ginger Absolute is used by certain flavor houses in compositions where alcohol-solubility is of paramount importance, and a true-to-nature flavor must be maintained. The absolute thus represents the aroma and the pungency of ginger, and it replaces the old ginger tincture in flavor work.
Ginger Absolute is produced by extraction of the ginger rhizome with hydrocarbon solvents. After evaporation of the solvent, the residual extract is extracted with alcohol. After chilling and filtration of the alcohol extract, this extract is evaporated under gentle vacuum until the alcohol is removed. The residue is Ginger Absolute.