A dry, woody-balsamic oil with a soft resinous character and faint earthy-spicy undertone. Less sweet than most balsams — more like weathered wood and quiet incense than sticky resin. Blends smoothly as a woody fixative without asserting a strong personality of its own.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 187.
viscous, amber-colored or greenish-olive to grayish liquid, occasionally opaque or slightly fluorescent
faintly sweet, woody, pinelike, reminiscent of copaiba balsam and amyris oil, however, with a crude undertone similar to that of a steam distilled pine oil
serves similar purposes as copaiba balsam; it is a low-cost, comparatively mild-smelling natural fixative for woody, balsamic or pine-type fragrances