Warm, aromatic spice character very close to nutmeg — sweet-woody with a slightly resinous, terpenic lift. Drier and more balsamic than nutmeg oil, with a persistent warm-spicy heart.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 248.
A viscous, orange-red or brownish-amber colored liquid
Soluble in almost any perfume or flavor material
The odor is fresh and spicy with a warm, rich and almost balsamic undertone.
Its flavor is warm, slightly pungent at higher concentrations, sweet and aromatic-spicy with an excellent masking effect.
In perfumery, mace extract finds some use along with other spicy and warm-aromatic materials for men's colognes, after-shaves, fougéres, chypres, in modern fantasy lotion perfumes, etc.
In flavor work, it gives a very close reproduction of the natural spice; it may even be classified as an improved edition of the natural spice with respect to organoleptic performance and overall attractiveness.
The dried comminuted mace is extracted with alcohol. After removal of the solvent under gentle vacuum, a viscous liquid is produced.