A warm, sweet balsamic oil with soft woody and slightly vanillic facets, reminiscent of a lighter, drier Peru balsam. Develops a resinous amber character with subtle spicy nuances, and functions as a natural fixative in oriental and amber accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 196.
Illurin Balsam is a dark amber colored to brownish, viscous liquid, occasionally turbid or opalescent.
The balsam contains a very high amount of essential oil which can be distilled from the balsam with steam.
The odor is sweet-woody, balsamic, very pleasant, uniform and tenacious. Certain lots show more burnt or phenolic, tarlike odors than others.
Illurin Balsam could find use in perfumery as a blender for ionones and many other synthetic materials which may need a natural blender or rounder-off. The oleoresin blends well with cedarwood, nitromusks, isobornylacetate, amyl salicylate, orris resin, vetiver oil, cinnamic alcohol, oakmoss products, lavandin oil, etc.