A rare Madagascan absolute (Hedychium coronarium, wild ginger lily) with a luminous white-floral heart wrapped in fresh green-spicy nuances. Opens with a bright, almost lily-jasmine facet lifted by ginger-root freshness and a hint of cardamom, drying down into a soft, waxy floral warmth.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 244.
Longoza Concréte is a chocolate-brown, waxy, almost solid mass. Longoza Absolute from Concrete is a dark brown or orange-brown, very viscous liquid; at times, it can hardly be poured at room temperature.
It yields about 50% of an alcohol-soluble absolute.
The odor is extremely rich, sweet-floral, deep-fruity-honey-like, with a peculiar spicy and vanilla-tuberose-like undertone.
It will lend a certain naturalness and rich undertone to artificial vanilla flavors, particularly those intended for chocolate.
Its tenacity and penetrating power in perfume compositions is often underestimated. Fractions of one percent in a perfume base may change the entire performance and overall characteristics of the fragrance.
It can be used in flavors with a quite interesting effect and very good results.
In Nossi-Bé, the tiny perfume island off the northwest coast of Madagascar, longoza flowers are treated with petroleum ether to yield a concrète which is shipped to France to be processed to an absolute.