Deep, warm herbal aroma with a strong phenolic, thymol-rich character — medicinal and slightly medicinal-smoky. Underneath sits a green, sweet-herbaceous facet that softens the sharpness of the fresh oil, giving a more rounded, tenacious impression than thyme essential oil.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 375.
Thyme Absolute is a very viscous, dark green liquid or a semi-solid mass.
Its odor is very deep-herbaceous, sweet and somewhat green with a rich, spicy undertone and a faintly medicinal, but pleasant bodynote.
In flavors, Thyme Absolute may be used as an improvement over thyme oil in all kinds of sauces, seasonings, and other food products, providing its green color is not prohibitive.
This product is useful in perfumery for its peculiar effect which is entirely different from that of the thyme oil. In traces, the absolute can introduce beautifully natural notes in jasmin, hyacinth, violet, etc., and it lends a rich herbaceous note in fougére, chypre, colognes, etc., where it blends well with citrus oils, lavender, oakmoss, patchouli, isobornylacetate, etc.
The dried herb is extracted with petroleum ether or other hydrocarbon solvent. The extract is a concrete of thyme. This is extracted with alcohol and yields an absolute.