Styrax oil, Oriental

At a glance

Distilled from Turkish (Levant) styrax, giving a warm, leathery, faintly medicinal-cinnamon balsamic It is valued by perfumers for this distinctive character and used as a building block within larger fragrance compositions.

One of several trade forms of Styrax catalogued here, see the full family →

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