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    Styrax Resin Absolute, Wild

    Styrax Resin Absolute, Wild

    CAS: 8024-01-9
    Supplier: Biolandes
    Regular price $3.00 USD
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    Styrax (or more correctly storax) resin absolute is a sweet and delicate material which blends wonderfully with the other classic perfumery resins; it works well as a fixative (especially for iris notes).

    These days most extracts on the market suffer from a pronounced styrene note (the plastic smell of polystyrene) which, being far from the genuine odour of styrax, more closely resembles the smell of an old mechanic's shop. As pleasant an odour as that may be for some, it has no place in the scent profile of styrax.

    Our styrax resin absolute is sweet, cinnamic, vanilla, subtly spicy and enticing. It is extracted from the raw balsam of wild Liquidambar styraciflua trees (commonly known as American sweetgum or hazel pine) using just-warm alcohol. This produces a “resin absolute” as opposed to a true resinoid or absolute. The naming conventions for all balsams is:

    Crude Balsam → Steam Distillation → Essential Oil
    Crude Balsam → Non-Ethanol Solvent Extraction → Resinoid
    Crude Balsam → Ethanol Extraction → Resin Absolute

    While a resin absolute is often wrongly referred to simply as an "absolute", the correct use of that term within the balsams category is for an alcohol extraction of a previously extracted resinoid (usually produced with hexane or other non-alcohol solvent).

    Resinoid → Alcohol Extraction → Absolute

    Our wild harvested styrax resin absolute is the finest extraction on the market. Nothing else comes close. This is so good you will start looking for opportunities to feature it in a fragrance.

    NOTE: This is IFRA compliant styrax resin due to the absence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

    Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: None detected [limit of detection: benzopyrene < 2μg/kg & benzanthracene < 6μg/kg]
    Country of Origin: Honduras
    Country of Manufacture: France
    Variety: Liquidambar styraciflua L.
    Part: Tree exudate
    Method of production: Warm (30 °C / 86 °F) alcohol extraction

    Appearance: Pale straw viscous liquid
    Longevity: Lasts > 400 hours on a smelling strip

    Usage Restrictions

    Permitted amounts in finished product:

    IFRA 51: 0.64%
    IFRA 49: 0.64%

    These are derived from calculated concentrations which do not replace chromatographic quantification on individual lots. Disclaimer...

    Label Requirements

    Ingredients may need to be listed as per your local legislation based on data found in the EU allergens report.

    Additional Requirements

    For Trade Use Only

    Our products are intended as building blocks in the perfume creation process; they are not to be applied to the skin undiluted.

    These raw materials are for use by the perfumery trade only.

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    Black Dress — Spicy Amber

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