A warm, sweet balsamic resin with a distinctive vanilla-cinnamon character and soft ambery undertones. Opens with a slightly aromatic, almost spicy top before settling into a rich, honeyed resinous heart that clings for hours. Signature note in oriental and amber compositions.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 378.
The balsam is a brown, orange-brown or dark yellowish brown mass, brittle when cold, and the fracture is glasslike or flintlike.
Tolu balsam is almost completely soluble in 95% alcohol. It is also soluble in most perfume materials, but not in all essential oils (turbidity with citrus oils, pine needle oils, etc.).
Its odor is sweet-balsamic, cinnamic in type, faintly floral and with an undertone of vanillin.
Its taste is slightly bitter-burning and rich-aromatic, spicy-cinnamic in overall flavor type.
The balsam itself is rarely used as such, but various cleaned products are employed in perfumery and pharmaceutical preparations.