A rich, sweet balsamic resin with warm vanilla and cinnamon facets and a soft, slightly smoky woody backbone. Over time it dries down to a tenacious, honeyed amber character with a faintly powdery, almost floral edge.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 379.
The crude balsam is soluble in alcohol, benzene, acetone, ether, chloroform, trichloroethylene, methylene dichloride, etc., but not in petroleum ether.
Tolu Balsam Absolute has a very rich, deep-sweet and floral-herbaceous odor which displays most surprising undertones, such as a sweet-fruity, prune-like, delicately floral and woody, tobacco-hay-like note.
Tolu Balsam Resinoid or Tolu Balsam Absolute are used primarily as fixatives in citrus-colognes, Oriental perfumes, chypres and floral bases.
Tolu Balsam Absolute should be prepared from the benzene resinoid of tolu balsam by alcohol washing. However, it is customary to prepare the 'absolute' by cold alcohol extraction of the crude tolu balsam.