Synthetics
Tolu balsam has a warm, sweet, and slightly medicinal aroma with balsamic, resinous, and vanilla-like notes.
Luebke, William tgsc, (1982): Sweet balsamic amber fruity
Indukern F&F: Sweet, balsamic, amber
Pell Wall Perfumes: Sweet-balsamic, ambery, spicy-cinnamic, fruity
In its natural state tolu balsam is rock-hard and quite difficult to handle it fractures like glass in this state it is produced from myroxylon balsamum and gives an extremely long-lasting sweet-balsamic note with cinnamic, slightly floral and vanillic qualities. it is an excellent natural fixative, normally used at around 4% of the concentrate for this purpose. here diluted to 30% in TEC making it an easy-to use pourable liquid that dissolves readily in ethanol.