Storax is also a name for trees in the genus Styrax

Styrax

Styrax is a genus of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, mostly native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the majority in eastern and southeastern Asia, but also crossing the equator in South America...

Storax is the resinous exudate of the tree Liquidambar orientalis

Liquidambar orientalis

Liquidambar orientalis, commonly known as oriental sweetgum or Turkish sweetgum, is a deciduous tree in the genus Liquidambar, native to the eastern Mediterranean region, that occurs as pure stands mainly in the flood plains of southwestern Turkey and on the Greek island of Rhodes.-Biotope:The...

 (commonly called oriental sweetgum or Turkish sweetgum), occasionally used in incense

Incense

Incense is composed of aromatic biotic materials, which release fragrant smoke when burned. The term "incense" refers to the substance itself, rather than to the odor that it produces. It is used in religious ceremonies, ritual purification, aromatherapy, meditation, for creating a mood, and for...

 or as an aromatic fixative

Fixative

A fixative is a stabilizing or preservative agent:*Fixative , a liquid usually sprayed over a finished piece of artwork to better preserve it and prevent smudging...

 in perfumery.

Eduard Simon

Eduard Simon

Eduard Simon, an apothecary in Berlin, Germany, accidentally discovered polystyrene in 1839. Simon distilled an oily substance from storax, the resin of the Sweetgum tree, Liquidambar orientalis, which he named "styrol"...

 extracted an oily liquid from storax through water damp distillation in 1839. He named it "styrol" which translates to styrene in english.. According to styrene was distillated before by others. Styrene polymerises under natural conditions to polystyrene

Polystyrene

Polystyrene ) also known as Thermocole, abbreviated following ISO Standard PS, is an aromatic polymer made from the monomer styrene, a liquid hydrocarbon that is manufactured from petroleum by the chemical industry...

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The similarly named styrax

Styrax

Styrax is a genus of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, mostly native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the majority in eastern and southeastern Asia, but also crossing the equator in South America...

 is from a different plant.

Film

• Storax is featured as the final ingredient for Amor and Psyche in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film)
  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film)
  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 2006 German thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer and written by Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger and Tykwer. It is based on the 1985 novel Perfume by Patrick Süskind. Set in 18th century France, the film tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille , an olfactory...
  
  

Literature

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century...
  
   likens the religious sentiment to storax in his famous Divinity School Address
  Divinity School Address
  The Divinity School Address is the common name for the speech Ralph Waldo Emerson gave to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School on July 15, 1838. At that time, Harvard was the center of academic Unitarian thought. In this address, Emerson made comments that were radical for their time...
  
  : "The perception of [the divine law of virtue] awakens in the mind ... the religious sentiment ... Wonderful is its power to charm and to command ... It is myrrh and storax, and chlorine and rosemary..."