Benzoin Oliffac 50/63

About this material

Benzoin Oliffac 63 opens with a creamy, vanillic sweetness (almost milkshake-like) that sits deeper and rounder than typical vanilla materials. There's a soft powdery quality underneath, dusted with faint cinnamon and almond nuances. The effect recalls warm resin tempered into something smooth and immediately usable. This IFF base solves the notorious handling problems of crude benzoin gum—no heating, no filtering, no wax precipitation. It dissolves completely in ethanol and pours cold from the bottle, which saves you time in production. At 1–3% of your concentrate, it adds soft vanillic sweetness without announcing itself; at 5–10%, it becomes the structural backbone of amber and oriental a… — Fraterworks

Usage in formulas

The 127th most used material of 1414 in the catalogue, present in 80 of 807 formulas. Used when a specific effect is wanted, not out of habit.