Schinus molle (Peruvian pink pepper) oil has a bright, dry pepper-like top with sparkling citrus and fresh terpenic facets. It quickly reveals a slightly resinous, green-woody heart reminiscent of juniper and pink peppercorn, with a subtle sweet-spicy warmth.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 358.
Schinus Molle Fruit Oil is a pale greenish or pale olive colored, oily liquid.
The odor is fresh, woody-peppery, warm-spicy with a somewhat sharp or dry, smoky-woody undertone.
The flavor is warm, somewhat biting although not pungent, but less rich than that of black pepper.
The oil has possible use in perfumery for woody-spicy, warm and powdery notes which blend excellently with oakmoss products, clove oils, nutmeg, cinnamic alcohol, ionones, nitromusks, aldehydes, etc.
The oil is steam distilled from the fruits (berries) of a small or medium sized tree which seems to have originated in northern South America. The tree is also known as “Peruvian Pepper Tree”, “Peruvian Mastic”, “Californian Pepper Tree”, etc. and it grows wild in Mexico, Guatemala and other tropical areas.