Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Copaiba balsam oil

Say itkoh-pye-EE-buh BAWL-sum oil

Soft peppery-woody, balsamic and lightly sweet, rich in caryophyllene.

What it is

Natural oil from distilled oleoresin tapped from Copaifera trees.

Where it comes from

Brazilian Amazon

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Inexpensive soft woody blender and fixative, adding gentle peppery warmth.

Worth knowing

Harvesters drill the trunk and drain the oleoresin, and the same tree can be tapped again later.

Also called

Copaifera spp.; copaiba