Concrete Candle Osmanthus

Osmanthus is an evergreen shrub or small tree with white, pale yellow, yellow, or orange-yellow flowers that have a strong fragrance. The scent of the osmanthus flower is slightly jasmine, with sensual apricot-peach accents, slightly animalic.

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.