Atlas Cedarwood Resinoid

#### Cedarwood "Atlas" Resinoid. A concrète can be produced by benzene extraction of the wood from **Cedrus Atlantica **(see **Cedarwood Oil, Atlas**). The concrète is commercially known as **Atlas Cedarwood Resinoid**** **(compare: vetiver resinoid). Although not produced regularly on a large scale, this material is made available upon demand, and it maintains some interest on account of its magnificent fixative effect and fine odor. **Resinoid **of **Atlas Cedarwood **is a dark amber to brownish mass of high viscosity. The **Cedarwood "Atlas" Absolute**, produced from this resinoid by the conventional alcohol washing method, is a brownish-yellow, very viscous liquid. The two materials will usually carry some solvent odor (benzene), due to their tremendous fixative power, but they do not present the camphoraceous-cresylic, or ketonic-sharp topnote which is usually found in the essential oil from this wood. To those who have had the opportunity of smelling the Atlas cedarwood in the local lumbermills or in the shape of various handcarved articles of art from Morocco, the **Resinoid **and the **Absolute **of **Atlas Cedarwood **present a very true-to-nature fragrance. The above products are used in perfumery along with bois de rose oil, boronia absolute, calamus oil, cassie absolute, cistus oil, mimosa absolute or concrète (excellent in soap perfumes!), olibanum, sage clary, vetiver, ylang-ylang, etc. in certain types of woody, woody-oriental, woody- floral or violet bases. A so-called "absolute" of atlas cedarwood is also prepared from atlas cedarwood oil by fractionated distillation under vacuum, see **Cedarwood Oil, **"**Atlas**".