Broom Absolute

#### Broom Absolute. The perfumer's "absolute de genêt", or **Broom Absolute**, is extracted from the so-called Spanish broom, **Spartium Junceum**. The small decorative shrub grows wild (and is also cultivated) in the south of France, Spain, and Italy. Production of broom absolute from petroleum ether concrète is almost exclusively carried out in the Grasse area in France. Benzene yields a much darker concrète. The original "genêt" is related to the above shrub, and it grows wild all over Europe and Western Asia, and is found even as far north as Scandinavia and Scotland. Its botanical name is Genista Tinctoria, also known as Cytisus Scoparius, the Irish or Scotch broom. **Broom**** ****Concrète**** **is a solid, dark brown, unctuous mass of a sweet honey-rose-like, somewhat woody and haylike odor. The concrète yields about 35 to 50% of alcohol-soluble absolute. **Broom Absolute **is dark brown, semi-solid or viscous liquid, with an intensely sweet, floral haylike fragrance. The deep herbaceous-coumarinic background has great tenacity. The honey-rose notes are particularly useful in certain types of rose bases, tuberose, cassie, mimosa, violet, honeysuckle, etc. It blends excellently with ionones, vetiver, castoreum, etc. in "tabac" notes, and it is generally useful in modern aldehydic perfume types, green notes, etc. Little is known about the constituents of **Broom**** ****Absolute**. The annual production can be estimated at 50 to about 150 kilos. Broom Absolute is used in flavors of the deep- sweet "preserve" type, e. g. plum, fig, raisin, date, etc. where it lends a rich body and naturalness. It is one of the most generally applicable of all the floral absolutes since trace amounts will yield perceptible improvement without being noticeable as a "perfumery" note. Suggested use level is 0.40 to 0.70 mg%, and the Minimum Perceptible is about 0.07 to 0.10 mg%.