A soft, sweet balsamic resin with a warm honeyed-amber character and a gentle spicy-myrrh facet. Less bitter and medicinal than myrrh, opopanax leans powdery and slightly vanillic, drying down to a creamy resinous warmth.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 291.
The crude botanical product is dark reddish, rarely dark yellow or brownish, and it occurs in comparatively regular lumps, tear-shaped or bean-shaped, of nut-size to walnut-size.
Its odor is sweet-aromatic, reminiscent of spicy soups (a faint resemblance to celery or lovage), a sweet-woody undertone and a peculiar, animal-like, also sweet and root-like note.