Stirlingia latifolia (blueboy) yields a rare Australian floral oil with a soft honeyed-floral character, wrapped in a waxy, slightly balsamic green undertone. It has a warm, nectar-like sweetness reminiscent of dried wildflowers and beeswax, with a subtle herbal-woody facet emerging on the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 365.
A true oil of Stirlingia Latifolia is pale yellow when freshly distilled.
The oil of Stirlingia Latifolia smells strongly herbaceous, sweet and floral-haylike, not nearly as repulsively sharp or harsh as pure acetophenone.
Stirlingia Latifolia Oil has very little importance or application in perfumery, but deserves a brief mention because of the peculiar fact that it consists almost entirely of acetophenone.
An essential oil can be obtained by steam distillation of the entire overground parts of the plant.