Rich, heady tropical floral with a creamy banana-like sweetness and a slightly rubbery, custard facet. Opens intensely narcotic and sweet-floral, softening into a warm, waxy floral heart with faint spicy and balsamic undertones.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 406.
Ylang-Ylang Extra is a pale yellow oil. Ylang-Ylang Third is a yellowish oily liquid.
Ylang-Ylang Extra has a very powerful, floral and intensely sweet odor with a cresylic and benzoate-like topnote of limited tenacity. The fadeout is more pleasant, soft and sweet, slightly spicy and balsamic-floral. Ylang-Ylang Third has a sweet-floral and balsamic-woody odor, with a tenacious and very sweet-balsamic undertone.
Ylang-Ylang Extra is used mainly in high-class perfumes of the floral and heavy-Oriental type, but mere traces of the oil can do wonders in medium-priced floral bases. Ylang-Ylang Third is useful in soap perfumery and as a comparatively low-cost floral material for hyacinths, lilacs, etc.
The oil is produced by water distillation or water-and-steam distillation of the freshly early-morning-picked flowers from Cananga odorata.