A dark, sticky resin that smells of sweet leather, dried fruit and warm honeyed tobacco — the backbone of the classic 'amber' accord and of chypre and oriental bases.
FacetsResinous · leathery · sweet · ambery
Usual layerbase
SourceNatural — a fragrant gum scraped from the leaves of the Mediterranean rock-rose (Cistus), then refined into a resinoid or an absolute.
