A dark, sticky balsamic resin with a rich sweet-leathery character and pronounced cinnamic and vanilla facets. Dries down warm, smoky and slightly rubbery with a honeyed amber undertone. Excellent fixative that lends depth and glow to oriental and leather accords.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 367.
A dark olive to brownish colored, very viscous liquid, hardly pourable at room temperature
Clearly soluble in most perfume materials, but causes turbidity with alcohol
Has a sweeter, more balsamic odor
Used in perfumes as a cleaned product, e.g. resinoids
Benzene extraction leads to a true resinoid; direct alcohol extraction leads to a resin-absolute; petroleum ether extraction yields a pale olive or greenish-brown colored resinoid; acetone is rarely used for extraction; direct extraction with high-boiling solvents yields a viscous, diluted extract