Gajumaru banjan

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Srednje notePiramida
3/5Jačina
—Trajnost
4Poreklo
Uzorak
Gajumaru banjan kao sirovina za parfeme
Srednje note
Ficus microcarpa (Gajumaru) Ficus benghalensis (Indian Banyan)
Fantazijska/konceptualna
Definicija

Green, humid, rootbound. Gajumaru smells like standing inside a banyan's aerial root curtain after rain -- damp bark, crushed fig leaf, and the warm vegetal breath of tropical wood.

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FICUS MACROPHYLLA MORETON BAY FIG
Type
Akord
Olfactive family
Aromatični
Source
leaves and flowering tops
Chemical class
complex natural (essential oil)
Instrumenti
Piramida
GGornje note
SSrednje note
BBazne note
3/5Jačina
Srednja
jačina mirisa
Zemlje proizvođači
Japan (Okinava) Jugoistočna Azija Indija Australija

Miris

Green, damp, latex-tinged fig leaf over warm tropical wood and wet earth. More humid and rootbound than standard fig accords, less sweet than coconut-tropical notes. The aerial-root impression brings a musty, bark-like quality absent from clean fig-leaf soliflores. The overall effect is enclosed, shaded, vegetal -- the smell of a place, not an ingredient.

Detaljno

Gajumaru is the Okinawan name for Ficus microcarpa, a banyan-family fig tree with extensive aerial roots. In perfumery, the note carries the atmospheric green-woody impression of the living tree rather than any specific extraction. The name carries cultural weight in Japan, particularly in Okinawa where ancient gajumaru are considered sacred.

The olfactory impression of a banyan environment combines several elements: the green, slightly latex-like smell of crushed fig leaves (from psoralen and bergapten compounds), the damp bark of aerial roots (earthy, slightly musty), the humid air trapped within the root canopy, and the warm, sweet background of tropical decomposing wood. No commercial extraction exists.

The accord is reconstructed using fig leaf absolute or synthetic fig-leaf molecules (gamma-octalactone, stemone), damp-earth notes (geosmin, vetiver), green-woody elements (galbanum, cis-3-hexenol), and a warm wood base. It functions as a green-woody atmospheric note in the heart zone, providing a tropical forest reference point.

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Zanimljivosti

Okinawans believe kijimuna -- red-haired forest spirits -- live in the aerial roots of old gajumaru trees. The oldest known specimen on the island, in Nago, is estimated at over 300 years and has a root spread exceeding 30 metres.

Dobijanje i hemija

Način dobijanja

No commercial extraction exists for Ficus microcarpa. The atmospheric note is reconstructed from fig leaf absolute, green-leaf synthetics, earthy molecules (geosmin, vetiver), and tropical wood bases.

Formula
Complex mixture (tree extract)
CAS
N/A — natural extract
Botanički naziv
Ficus microcarpa (Gajumaru) Ficus benghalensis (Indian Banyan)
Izgled
Pale yellow to amber viscous liquid with a green-woody character
Jačina mirisa
Srednji
Sinonimi
FICUS MACROPHYLLA MORETON BAY FIG
Status prema standardima IFRA
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Not applicable: accord or concept, not a single material

Fizička svojstva
Nota
No standardized commercial essential oil with defined physical constants. Extracts from Ficus microcarpa and Ficus benghalensis yield variable compositions depending on plant part and extraction method.

U parfemima

Gajumaru/banyan is an atmospheric accord functioning as a green-woody heart note. It carries the microclimate inside a tropical banyan tree: fig leaves, damp bark, humid air. Built from fig leaf absolute or gamma-octalactone, geosmin (petrichor/earth), galbanum, cis-3-hexenol, and warm wood bases. The note works in tropical, green, and naturalistic forest compositions as a place-evocation rather than a single-ingredient reference.

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