Concrete Candle Labdanum

Labdanum, is a sticky brown resin obtained from the shrubs Cistus ladanifer (western Mediterranean) and Cistus creticus (eastern Mediterranean), species of rockrose. Labdanum’s odour is variously described as amber, animalic, sweet, fruity, woody, ambergris, dry musk, or leathery.

Concrete, in perfumery, is a semi-solid mass obtained by solvent extraction of fresh plant material.

Fresh plant material is extracted with nonpolar solvents (e. g., benzene, toluene, hexane, petroleum ether). On evaporation of the solvent, a semi-solid residue of essential oils, waxes, resins and other lipophilic (oil-soluble) plant chemicals remains.