Acacia (Acacia farnesiana) is an evergreen shrub or small tree of the Fabaceae family growing up to 8 m tall, with a thorny trunk and branches and bipinnate leaves. In spring it produces globe-shaped yellow-orange flower clusters with an intense honeyed, powdery and vanilla-like scent. The flowers used to produce the absolute are harvested by hand. The oil is hard to find 100% pure: almost the entire market offers chemically reconstituted or diluted products, since traditional extraction laboratories have all but disappeared. It has a warm, opulent and long-lasting olfactory profile.

Australia, Africa, India; the production of absolute proviene mainly from Egypt and India.

Flowers

Solvent extraction (absolute)

• Perfumery: heart note high-quality in compositions floreal oriental and cipriate.
• Psicologico: tonic nervino, useful in states of fatigue emotional and apatia.
• Antimicrobico: properties antibacterial and funghicida.
• Digestive: stomachic and carminative, traditionally used for disorders digestive.
• Cosmetic: used in creams and sieri for the its potere emollient and scented.

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