Ylang(Cananga odorata) Absolute/Madagascar

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Olfactory properties of Ylang(Cananga odorata var.geniuina) Absolute/Madagascar
The light golden liquid extracted from Ylang ylang flowers displays a delicate, fresh soft, pure,sweet floral aroma with a refined balsamic-spicy undertone. As the dry out deepens, the above mentioned notes come into a long lasting uniform balance with good radiance and tenacity.

Blends well with aglaia odorata abs; allspice eo, co2 and abs; ambrette eo, co2 and abs; anise star eo and co2; bay leaf eo and abs; benzoin abs; boronia abs; citrus eo's; bois de rose eo; cardamon eo, co2 and abs; carnation abs; cassie absolute; cedarwood eo's; champa, golden abs; champa, white abs and co2; cistus eo and abs; clove bud eo, co2 and abs; costus root eo, co2 and abs; fennel sweet eo and co2; frankincense eo, co2 and abs; galbanum eo, co2 and abs; gardenia absolute; geranium eo and abs; ginger eo, co2 and abs; hay abs; jasmine absolutes; hyacinth abs; kadam attar; kewda attar and ruh; litsea cubeba eo; mimosa abs; neroli eo; night queen abs and attar; orange blossom abs; opoponax abs and eo; osmanthus abs; peru balsam eo and abs; rose absolutes and ottos; sandalwood eo, co2 and abs; saffron abs and co2; styrax eo, resinoid and abs; verbena eo and abs; vetiver eo, co2 and abs; white ginger lily abs

In natural perfumery is useful in creating natural gardenia, tuberose, stephanotis, hyacinth, carnation, lily of the valley, lilac, sweet pea, fressina, honeysuckle bases.
Useful also in tropical bouquet, oriental compositions, high class florals, garland perfumes, chypre, fougeres

Ylang, I'lang, Kananga in Literature

He hurried through the town
and headed toward the outlying country, toward that old house which
he had not entered for so many years. The house was surrounded by a
wall, near which many cacti grew, and as he approached they seemed to
signal to him. The windows seemed to open, the ilang-ilang joyfully
waved its branches, and the doves fluttered about the little tower
on the peak of their garden house.
Friars and Filipinos, by Jose Rizal

If we go to Maria Clara's house, we will find it like a little nest
among orange and ilang-ilang trees, surrounded by flowers and vines
which creep up on bamboo sticks and wires, diffusing their delicious
perfume. The rich fragrance of the ilang-ilang reaches even to
the window which looks out on the lake.
Friars and Filipinos, by Jose Rizal

Bottles of lemonade were opened, green cocoanuts were cut in two so
that those who were coming out of the bath might have the refreshing
milk to drink and the delicate meat to eat. The young women in addition
received rosaries of sampagas interwoven with roses and ilang-ilang,
which gave a beautiful fragrance to their loose hair.
Friars and Filipinos, by Jose Rizal

All the spices of the East, in fact, seem breathing from these mounds of blossom, as well as from gums and essences distilled from them in archaic fashion. Transparent sachets, filled with the scented petals [22]of ylang-ylang, fill the air with intoxicating sweetness, and outside the busy passer, a frangipanni-tree, the native sumboya or "flower of the dead," just opening a white crowd of golden-hearted blossoms to the sun, adds another wave of perfume to the floral incense, steaming from earth to sky with prodigal exuberance.
Through the Malay Archipelago, by Emily Richings

"What gorgeous and sweet-scented flowers," exclaimed Filippa, pointing
to a great tree.

"That is the Ylang," said the Padre. "Our friend uses its perfume
on his handkerchief; but he did not know, perhaps, that the flower
grew in the far-away Philippines. It has the deepest fragrance of
any flower, whether on plant, bush, or tree."

"What can its strange name mean?" I inquired; for I seemed to have
no acquaintance with nature at all, in this wonderfully different land.

The Padre, who knew many languages, explained: "It is a Malay word
which means, 'The chief flower of all flowers'; and such I think
it really is. We capture the fragrance by distilling the flowers,
and mixing pure alcohol with the essence."
Fil and Filippa, by John Stuart Thomson

On this evening, Crisostomo presented himself at the
home of his fiancee; the curate arrived at the same moment. The house
was a delicious little nest among orange-trees and ylang-ylang. They
found Maria by an open window, overlooking the lake, surrounded by
the fresh foliage and delicate perfume of vines and flowers.
An Eagle Flight, by Jose Rizal

"Last night," so runs the diary, "Louis and I walked up and down the path behind the house. The air was soft and warm, but not too warm, and filled with the most delicious fragrance. These perfumes of the tropic forest are wonderful. When I am pulling weeds it often happens that a puff of the sweetest scent blows back to me as I cast away a handful of wild plants. I believe I have discovered the ylang-ylang tree, about which there has been so much mystery. Simile tells me that one of the priests distils perfume from the same tree. It does not grow very large and has a delicate leaf of a tender shade of green, with the flowers, of a greenish white, in racemes. The natives often use these flowers to mix in their wreaths."
The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, by
Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

Two days to Christmas, he thought, and he had sent her no remembrance.
He stood at the window, tasting the cool thickness of the evening,
breathing the fragrance of ylang-ylang: leaf and frond, stirred by the
monsoon, purred in gentle contact. In the starlight the old stone
church outlined its old-world, old-time architecture in friendly
shadows which veiled the pitiful scars and age-stains: the bamboo
shacks across the square--wry, flimsy, smutted by a hotly jealous
sun--had yielded to the magic of the night to become little golden
houses in which the fairies abode till the morning stars should fade.
Terry, by Charles Goff Thomson

The island rose from level
groves of shore palms to lofty blue peaks terraced with rice and
red-massed kina plantations, with shining streams and green kananga
flowers and tamarinds. The land breeze, fragrant with clove buds and
cinnamon, came off to the ship in the vaporous dusk; and, in the blazing
sunlight of morning, the Anjer sampans swarmed out with a shrill chatter
of brilliant birds, monkeys and naked brown humanity, piled with dark
green oranges and limes and purple mangosteen.
Java Head, by Joseph Hergesheimer

Links for Ylang/Cananga odorata
Aromatherapy for healing the spirit By Gabriel Mojay
Trees: A Visual Guide By Tony Rodd, Jennifer Stackhouse
Encyclopedia of food and color additives, Volume 1 By George A. Burdock
CRC handbook of alternative cash crops By James A. Duke, Judith L. DuCellier
Fenaroli's handbook of flavor ingredients: George A. Burdock
Common fragrance and flavor materials: preparation, properties and uses
By Horst Surburg, Johannes Panten
Agroforestry Monograph on Ylang
Wikipedia article on Ylang
Myths and legends of flowers, trees, fruits, and plants By Charles Montgomery Skinner