A warm, sweet balsamic resin with a soft cinnamon-vanilla character and a faint smoky, almost floral undertone. Opens with a slightly spicy, aromatic lift and dries down into a rich, honeyed resin that feels rounded and comforting.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 379.
Tolu Balsam Oil (dry distilled) is an amber colored or yellowish, viscous liquid which solidifies into an amber colored, crystalline mass on standing or cooling.
Tolu Balsam Oil (steam distilled) is a viscous oil of a sweet-floral odor with a rather sharp, peppery topnote which fades away quickly, giving way to a faintly fruity-floral, sweet-spicy, long-lasting balsamic dryoutnote. The odor of the melted homogeneous mass is very rich balsamic, occasionally somewhat creosolic, sweet and floral, outstandingly tenacious, and more uniform than the odor of the steam distilled oil.
In flavors, it is a useful fixative for rum (which contains many low-boiling and highly volatile materials), or in flavors for baked goods where the fixative effect of tolu balsam oil protects the flavor from evaporating during the baking at elevated temperatures.
This material gives excellent effects in hyacinth, tuberose, gardenia, honeysuckle, stephanotis and numerous other sweet-floral fragrances; it blends well with hydroxy-citronellal, linalool, sandalwood oil, terpeneless bergamot oil, isoeugenol, labdanum, heliotropine, mimosa absolute, opopanax, ylang-ylang, orange flower, and it is, in general, an interesting item for use in all types of 'fantasy' perfume, 'tabac', 'leather', aldehydic perfume, etc. It produces interesting 'powdery' effects with patchouli, ionones, musks, cedarwood ketones, etc.
Produced by steam distillation of tolu balsam, and vacuum distillation is also common.