Dry, resinous, faintly balsamic with an insect-wax sweetness. Mopane smells like sun-cracked bark in the southern African bushveld -- warm wood, red dust, a trace of turpentine.
- Type
- Akord
- Olfactive family
- Smolasti
- Source
- Colophospermum mopane (mopane tree), native to southern Africa; the resinous bark and wood chips yield the aromatic material, sometimes combined with mopane worm secretion accord.
Miris
Detaljno
Dobijanje i hemija
Način dobijanja
No commercial essential oil or absolute of Colophospermum mopane exists in mainstream perfumery supply chains. The note is reconstructed as a fantasy accord.
- Formula
- N/A — no standard commercial essential oil
- CAS
- N/A — no standard commercial essential oil
- Botanički naziv
- Colophospermum mopane
- Izgled
- N/A — no standard commercial essential oil; the wood has a resinous, balsamic character
- Jačina mirisa
- Visok
- Sinonimi
- Mopane resin, Mopane wood
Not applicable: accord or concept, not a single material
- Nota
- No standard commercial essential oil. Mopane wood is valued for its density and resinous character; the scent is earthy, balsamic, and slightly smoky.
U parfemima
Mopane is a reconstructed accord functioning as a dry-woody base modifier. It carries southern African bushveld: warm bark, red dust, faint balsamic resin. Built from guaiac wood oil, copaiba balsam, vetiver, and beeswax absolute. The note provides an African terroir signature in woody, earthy, and naturalistic compositions -- drier and less sweet than oud, less smoky than birch tar.
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