Pandanus absolute has a lush, tropical-floral character reminiscent of jasmine tea and green rice leaves. Its opening is grassy and slightly hay-like, opening into a soft rosy-jasmine heart with a subtle coumarinic sweetness. There is a characteristic warm, cooked-rice or basmati facet that gives it an edible, exotic quality.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 309.
Pandanus Absolute is a colorless liquid.
The oil is somewhat soluble in water.
Pandanus Absolute has an intensely sharp, very powerful and diffusive, but also very sweet, hyacinth-honeylike odor.
The pandanus absolute can be of great interest to the perfumer in compositions such as honeysuckle, hyacinth, lily, narcissus, etc. and for experimental modifications of rose, lilac, etc.
The flowers are collected exclusively from cultivated trees. An 'Attar of Kewda' is prepared by maceration of the flowers with sesame seed or sesame oil. The flowers may also be steam distilled into sandalwood oil or other perfume oils. The most common large-scale method today is the hydrocarbon extraction method in which a concrete is first prepared. By alcohol washing of the concrete, an Absolute of Pandanus is obtained.