Mastic (Pistacia lentiscus) opens with a bright, dry pine-like resinous note lifted by fresh terpenic and green facets. It settles into a soft balsamic, slightly woody heart reminiscent of turpentine and cypress with a clean, almost incense-like edge.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 253.
Mastic Oil is a pale yellow, mobile liquid.
The oil is soluble in hydrocarbons and ethyl alcohol.
The dry mastic has only a faint, balsamic-turpentine-like odor, but it does contain a small amount of essential oil which can be obtained by steam distillation of the oleoresin.
It is occasionally used in citrus colognes, lavender-fougéres, etc. as a topnote ingredient, lending a certain naturalness and bitter-balsamic tonality to these perfume types.
The natural mastic is used extensively in pharmaceutical and technical preparations, varnishes for dentists, etc.
By extraction of the Mastic with alcohol or a hydrocarbon solvent, various types of Mastic Resinoid are produced.