Warm, sweet-spicy oil reminiscent of clove and allspice, with a fresh peppery-aromatic top and a smooth balsamic-woody drydown. More rounded and less medicinal than clove bud, with a subtle fruity nuance from the berry.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 328.
Pimenta Berry Oil is a pale yellow liquid.
Pimenta Berry Oil has a warm-spicy, sweet odor, presenting a peculiar, but fresh and clean topnote and a long-lasting, sweet, balsamic-spicy bodynote with a tea-like undertone.
The flavor of pimenta berry oil is equally warm, sweet, not burning, slightly peppery, but not dry.
In perfumery, the role of pimenta berry oil is limited to that of a modifier in the modern spicy types of men’s fragrance, fougére, after-shave, etc. and occasionally as a special note of warm and sweet-spicy character, e.g. in chypre, Oriental bases, etc.
The oil is used extensively in fruit flavors of the heavier type, e.g. plum, blackcurrant, pineapple, cherry, etc. The main use, however, is in food products such as meat sauces, spice blends for pickles, sausages, etc.
Pimenta Berry Oil is steam distilled from dried, crushed, fully grown, but unripe fruits of the West Indian tree, Pimenta Officinalis.