Деревина мескіту

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Базові нотиПіраміда
3/5Сила
—Стійкість
2Походження
Зразок
Деревина мескіту як парфумерна сировина
Базові ноти
Prosopis glandulosa
Фантазійний/концептуальний
Визначення

Dense, warm, and aromatic. Mesquite wood itself — unburned — smells of dry, sun-baked heartwood with a faint sweetness from the tree's naturally high sugar content.

ДИМНИЙ СОЛОДКИЙ ШКІРЯНИЙ ТЕПЛИЙ СУХИЙ СМОЛИСТИЙ
Prosopis glandulosa, Mesquite
Type
Акорд
Olfactive family
Деревні
Source
Fantasy/Concept
Chemical class
reconstructed accord
Інструменти
Піраміда
ВВерхні ноти
СНоти серця
ББазові ноти
3/5Сила
Середня
інтенсивність запаху
Країни-виробники
Мексика Сполучені Штати

Запах

Dry, warm, and faintly sweet. Denser and harder-smelling than cedar, less resinous than pine, with a subtle caramel undertone from the wood's natural sugars. The overall impression is of sun-dried timber in an arid climate — warm, mineral, with a whisper of sweetness.

Less smoky than burned mesquite. Closer to sandalwood in persistence but without sandalwood's creaminess.

Докладно

Mesquite wood as a perfumery note refers to the aromatic character of Prosopis wood itself rather than its smoke. The unburned heartwood has a warm, dry, subtly sweet profile — less dramatic than the smoky note, but with a particular character tied to the wood's density and chemistry.

Mesquite heartwood is exceptionally dense (specific gravity 0.7-0.9) and rich in tannins and sugars. The aromatic compounds present in the raw wood include furfural, vanillin-adjacent aldehydes, and various terpenoids. The scent is warm and dry, with a faint caramel-like sweetness — more subtle than the smoky version but recognizably mesquite.

In perfumery, mesquite wood appears as a variation on the mesquite theme — drier, less smoky, more woody-structural. It carries desert lumber, dry heat, and arid landscapes without the campfire association.

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Отримання й хімія

Спосіб отримання

Direct essential oil distillation of mesquite heartwood is not a standard commercial product. The note in perfumery is typically reconstructed. Mesquite wood chips are commercially available for smoking food, and their aromatic compounds could theoretically be captured via CO2 or steam distillation, but this is not done at perfumery scale.

Формула
N/A — complex wood material
CAS
N/A — no single CAS (whole wood)
Ботанічна назва
Prosopis glandulosa
Зовнішній вигляд
Hard, dense reddish-brown to dark brown heartwood; aromatic when burned
Сила запаху
Середня
Синоніми
Prosopis glandulosa, Mesquite
Статус IFRA
Див. примітку

Not applicable: accord or concept, not a single material

Фізичні властивості
Нота
Wood density: 0.82–0.95 g/cm³. Heartwood rich in tannins and flavonoids.

У парфумерії

Mesquite wood provides a dry, warm woody base that carries arid landscapes. It functions as a structural base note — less dramatic than its smoky counterpart but with good persistence. Useful in desert-themed, dry-woody, and minimalist compositions. Built from woody-amber molecules, dry sandalwood substitutes, and trace amounts of vanillin or furfural derivatives.

Роль у формулі
01модифікатор
02кістяк
03фірмова нота
04сполучний компонент
05натуралізатор
Форми випуску
синтетичний акорд фантазійна нота

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