Styrax
Styrax has a warm balsamic scent with sweet resin, smoky leather and softly spicy facets. It can give an amber accord a darker, more textured quality.
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It connects resins, leather and woods and adds contrast to vanilla or rich flowers.
The note’s placement and prominence depend on the complete composition.
Understanding this note
Styrax in perfume refers to balsamic aromatic materials or their reconstructions. It should not be confused with benzoin simply because some botanical names and resin terminology overlap.
Related notes to explore
Labdanum →
Labdanum is rich and resinous, with warm amber, leather, balsamic and subtly animalic facets
Leather →
Leather can evoke supple hide, dry suede, smoky tar or a polished, slightly animalic warmth
Benzoin →
Benzoin has a warm, resinous sweetness with vanilla, soft balsamic and gently spicy facets
Vanilla →
Vanilla is warm and softly sweet, with creamy, balsamic, woody and sometimes tobacco-like facets
Material references
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