Warm, sweet-balsamic resin with a myrrh-like character but softer and more honeyed. Develops a spicy, slightly smoky facet over time, with dry woody and faint animalic undertones. A classic oriental fixative with a rich, ambered depth.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 292.
Opopanax Oil is an orange-colored, pale yellow or olive-yellowish to dark amber-greenish liquid.
It possesses an intensely sweet, balsamic, spicy, warm, yet fresh odor, somewhat reminiscent of wine residue.
Opopanax Oil blends well with sage clary, coriander, labdanum, with woody and heavy-floral perfume bases, chypre, fougére, leather bases, Oriental bases, bergamot oil, methylionones, nitromusks, patchouli oil, mimosa, phenylethyl phenylacetate, linalyl cinnamate, heliotropine, methyl naphthyl ketone, fir needle absolute, neroli oil, etc.
The oil is occasionally used in liqueur flavors for its heavy-sweet body and wine-like notes, spiciness and naturalness.
The essential oil of Opopanax is produced in Europe or the U.S.A. by steam distillation, occasionally by water distillation.