Oregon Balsam is a thick, dark resinoid with a warm balsamic-resinous character reminiscent of pine and fir needles blended with soft vanilla-sweet undertones. It has an earthy, slightly smoky woody depth that lingers with a syrupy sweetness, sitting between conifer oleoresin and softer balsams like Peru or fir absolute.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 304.
Oregon balsam is a light amber colored or pale yellow, viscous liquid.
Oregon balsam has a pleasant, fresh, pine-type odor.
Oregon Balsam is used occasionally in perfumery as a faintly fragrant fixative in pine type perfumes, forest notes, low-cost lemon type perfumes for soaps, and generally as a fixative where the fresh-pincy note is justified.
The balsam is collected from felled trees by placing a drum under the end pieces of the trunks or by inserting a tube in natural wounds of the trees.