Deep, dry, and slightly bitter resinous aroma with a smoky-medicinal edge. Opens with a sharp, almost mushroom-like herbal facet before settling into a warm, balsamic-woody base with subtle spicy sweetness. Darker and more concentrated than myrrh essential oil, with a leathery, almost mummified character.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 268.
Myrrh Absolute is a very dark reddish-brown or orange-colored, viscous mass, only slightly more plastic than the resinoid. The absolute, if free from solvents or plasticizers, is not pourable, but it should be soft and sticky at room temperature.
Myrrh Extracts which contain alcohol are not clearly soluble in vegetable oils or mineral oil and they may cause slight turbidity with certain other solvents occasionally used in perfumery.
The natural resin-acids form small amounts of odorous esters with the alcohol, thereby influencing the overall odor of the extract. Accordingly, cold-extracted resin-absolutes are preferred for their true-to-nature odor and good solubility. They may show a superior odor strength in many cases since they contain less of the odorless resinous components than do the hot-extracted products.
Myrrh Absolute or concentrated Myrrh Extracts are used in perfumery in circumstances similar to those described under Myrrh Resinoid. They have a lower acid index and slightly higher essential oil content than the resinoids, and they are soluble in all perfumery materials.
A true Absolute of Myrrh should be prepared from myrrh resinoid by alcohol extraction and subsequent evaporation of the chilled and filtered extract. The usual method of producing an alcohol-soluble extract of myrrh is the direct alcohol-extraction of the crude botanical. The resulting product which in pharmaceutical terms would be an extract is commercially known as a 'resin-absolute'.