Ingredients · Amber & resins · dry-down

Tolu balsam resinoid

Say ittoh-LOO BAWL-sum REZ-ih-noyd

Sweet cinnamon-vanilla balsam, lighter and more floral than Peru balsam.

What it is

Natural resin extract from oleoresin of Myroxylon balsamum trees.

Where it comes from

Colombia, Venezuela

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Softens and fixes orientals, ambers and florals with gentle cinnamic sweetness.

Worth knowing

Long used to flavor cough syrups and lozenges, which gives it a faintly medicinal familiarity.

Also called

Balsam of Tolu; Myroxylon balsamum resinoid