A warm, sweet-anisic aroma reminiscent of aniseed and fennel, layered with a fresh green-herbaceous top and a soft earthy, root-like undertone. Distinctly reminiscent of the plant's seeds and roots — pungent yet rounded, with a licorice-adjacent sweetness that persists into a slightly balsamic drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 330.
Pimpinella absolute is a viscous liquid or a sticky, semi-liquid mass of deep orange, yellow-orange or brownish-orange color.
Its odor is very peculiar, sweet and extremely tenacious, somewhat spicy, strongly aromatic, herbaceous and woody.
Pimpinella absolute blends well with labdanum, sage clary, opopanax, benzoin, cinnamic alcohol, nitromusks, isoeugenol, lavender oil, isobutyl cinnamate, rose bases, etc. in heavy Oriental bases, chypres, fantasy fougéres, etc.
It finds use, although only rarely, in flavors where its deep-sweet tonalities and great tenacity lend a natural and pleasant bodynote and undertone, rounding off the composition to an attractive and more interesting flavor. Liqueurs and candy flavors are some of the fields where pimpinella extracts occasionally find use beyond the use in pharmaceutical preparations such as throat lozenges, cough drops, gargle concentrates, etc.
The essential oil is produced occasionally by a few perfume and flavor houses for their own use. The roots are commercially available since they form the raw material of Pimpinella Tincture, a well-known pharmaceutical preparation. By gentle evaporation of the tincture, a resin-absolute is produced. A true absolute of pimpinella root is usually prepared the conventional way: comminuted pimpinella root is extracted with petroleum ether (low yield, but light-colored extract) or benzene, acetone or ethyl ether. The latter gives a very low yield of an almost liquid extract (mainly essential oil). The concrete extract is subsequently extracted with alcohol, and the alcohol is removed under mild vacuum.