Chioranthus Spicatus

#### Chioranthus Spicatus. An absolute is produced from a benzene- or a petroleum ether extracted concrète of the flowers of this Chinese shrub. The flowers are also distilled with steam to yield an essential oil, but the yield is extremely small. Originally, the flowers were used together with the flowers of jasmin, orange tree or mandarin tree for the perfuming (scenting) of tea. See also **Champaca Absolute **and **Camellia,**** ****Nyctanthes Arbortristis **and **Chimonanthus Fragrans**, etc. The concrète and the absolute from concrète of **Chioranthus Spicatus **are not regularly available outside of China at the present moment. Small commercial lots of the essential oil occasionally arrive in Europe. **Absolute**** **of chioranthus spicatus is a yellow to dark amber colored viscous liquid of delightfully soft, woody-floral odor. The overall odor has a striking resemblance to that of boronia absolute (see monograph). The topnote is somewhat dry-woody, but it becomes increasingly sweetbalsamic and floral like Peru balsam oil, cassie absolute, boronia absolute, etc. The essential oil is a straw colored or amber colored, somewhat viscous liquid of light-woody, delicately floral and extremely tenacious odor, reminiscent of the above mentioned materials. **Chioranthus**** ****Spicatus**** ****Oil**** **blends excellently with "violet-leaf-green" materials such as amyl heptine carbonate (so-called), beta-gamma-hexenyl acetate, methyl nonylenate, dibutyl sulfide, sec.-nonyl acetate, 2 ,6-nonadienal, etc., and with methylionones, cardamom oil, cassie absolute, mimosa absolute, sage clary, heliotropine, cassione, betaionone, cinnamic alcohol, etc. It is very conceivable that this essential oil may become a popular and well known item on the perfumer's shelf, once the oil becomes available in other parts of the world.