Opopanax - Wild Essential Oil. 1 ml. Eden botanicals

Botanical Name: Commiphora erythraea (Ehrenb.) Engl. var. glabrescens (synonym of Commiphora gorinii Chiov.)
Origin: Somalia (distilled in Morocco)
Process: Steam Distilled Essential Oil
Plant Part: Oleo-gum Resin
Cultivation: Wild Grown
Use: Aromatherapy / Natural Perfumery / Incense. Always dilute.
Note: Base Note, Fixative
Aroma Families: Resinous, Balsamic
Aroma: Sweetly aromatic, spicy, warm, fresh, deep balsamic aroma with woody, root-like, slight animalic, and faint celery / lovage undertones.

The aroma of Opopanax essential oil, with its pleasantly balsamic sesquiterpenes, is another oil akin to Frankincense and Myrrh that can help induce states of calm. The name is borrowed from the Latin, opopanax, to the Ancient Greek opos, vegetable juice + panax, any of several plants believed to have medicinal benefits. Ours has a sweetly aromatic, spicy, warm, fresh, deep balsamic aroma with woody, root-like, slight animalic, and faint celery / lovage undertones. Quite an array of olfactory input

Both Williams and Arctander specifically point out that the aroma of Opopanax essential oil typically differs from that of Myrrh: Opopanax has a spicy, somewhat broth-like or vegetable soup-like, slightly animal-sweet odor and is obviously richer in deep-balsamic sesquiterpene-type notes, while Myrrh essential oil has a light, fresh topnote and comparatively little dry out note

Its [Opopanax] power and growth in a perfume is often underestimated; unless perfectly balanced with modifying and supporting materials, Opopanax oil has a tendency of showing up in a rather unattractive manner after a short ageing period of the perfume. It blends well with woody and heavy floral perfume bases, chypre, fougère, leather bases, [and] Oriental bases