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VANILLA EXTRACT

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Material type
natural absolute
Canonical source
arctander
Formulation

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Compatibility tags
cologne
How it behaves

Olfactory profile

Family
sweet
Note tendency
Base
Descriptors
floralresinoussweetcooloilyvanillatobacco

Rich, sweet, and balsamic with the characteristic warm creamy vanilla-bean aroma. Softer and more rounded than vanillin, with subtle boozy, resinous, and slightly smoky facets from the natural bean. Long-lasting comforting sweetness with a faint hay-like nuance in the drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7

Intensity
6 / 10
Tenacity
8 / 10
Volatility
3 / 10
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naturals · No. 417

Arctander monograph

Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 391.

BASEtenacity · highpower · stronghydrodistillation
sweetfloral
Appearance

This preparation is a dark brown viscous liquid.

Solubility

The clarified extract is primarily a flavor material since it is not miscible with essential oils or most synthetic perfume materials.

Odor

The vanilla note can be modified or supported by materials such as zingerone, castoreum tincture, cassione, vanillin, ethylvanillin, vanitrope, longoza absolute, ortho-diethoxybenzene, anisalcohol, anisyl formate, veratraldehyde, etc.

Flavor

In flavors, the extracts are often substituted for by absolutes, tinctures or special concentrates.

Uses in perfumery

Vanilla extracts are primarily used in flavors: ice cream, soft drinks, pharmaceutical preparations, chocolate manufacture, tobacco, hard and soft candy, baked goods and household essences, liqueurs.

Uses in flavor

In flavors, the extracts are often substituted for by absolutes, tinctures or special concentrates.

Production

The vanilla is extracted once with petroleum ether or dichloromethane. This extract is evaporated per se, and kept separate till later. Extraction is then continued with 70% ethyl alcohol, then with 60% alcohol, with 50% alcohol and perhaps with 40% or 30% alcohol. Finally, one extract is made with hot, distilled water.

Identity
Aliases · 3
Vanilla AbsoluteVanilla ResinoidVanilla Tincture
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