Plant Part: Flower
Extraction: Absolute
Growing Practice: Ethical
Country of Origin: India
Odor Type: FLORAL
Odor Characteristic: Heavy floral-jasminic with fresh green topnote, which distinquishes it from J. grandiflorum. Sambac is indolic with a slight narcissus quality. Dryout comes across as strong and powerful jasminic, but thinner and less full bodied than grandiflorum dryout and with a slight green-hyacinth aspect.
Refractive Index: 1.488 to 1.504 @ 20° C.
Specific Gravity: 0.947 to 0.961 @ 25° C.
Appearance: yellow clear liquid
CAS No: 8022-96-6
Perfumery: Used in such a wide variety of perfumes that it is not possible to establish narrow rules for its use. A floral note, when required, is usually jasmine in 8 out of 10 perfumes. The young perfume student will be surprised at how little jasmine absolute is required to obtain good strength of floral note in a composition.
No irritation or sensitisation in human tests at 3%, however extremely sensitive individuals may wish to avoid because of components like benzyl benzoate, farnesene, eugenol and linalool present. Not phototosic.(1)
(1) Aromatherapy Science: a guide for healthcare professionals, Maria Lis-Balchin, Pharmaceutical Press
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