Ingredients · Amber & resins · dry-down

Styrax resinoid (American)

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Sweet, balsamic-cinnamic resin, generally softer and less tarry than Turkish styrax.

What it is

Natural resin extract from balsam from Liquidambar styraciflua trees.

Where it comes from

Honduras and Central America

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Balsamic fixative for ambers, leathers and floral-oriental accords; a source of cinnamic sweetness.

Rules

Limited. IFRA bans crude gum; only capped extracts and distillates allowed.

Also called

American storax; sweetgum balsam; Liquidambar styraciflua

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