Recent Examples on the WebAt the base, the fragrance is rounded out by sweet vanilla bean, smoky tobacco leaf absolute, and woody styrax resin.—Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022 Part of the Heritage collection, the new woodsy-fresh Aventus Cologne combines base notes of styrax, birch, musk and tonka bean to bring out your inner emperor. $325 for 50 milliliters.—Kevin Smothers, latimes.com, 6 June 2019
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capitalized: a large genus (the type genus of the family Styracaceae) of shrubs and trees including forms yielding commercially important resins (as benzoin)
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