Olfactive family
Citrus
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Beginner · Bergamot Crude Bottom Fraction
Which olfactive family best fits Bergamot Crude Bottom Fraction?
Material study card
Bergamot Crude Bottom Fraction
Olfactive profile
dark bergamot peel · bitter green rind · tea · wax · soft floral · terpenic depth
Material / extraction class
Fraction / Residue / Terpenes
Botanical or natural identity
Citrus × bergamia Risso & Poit.
Likely position
top / opening
Possible work in a formula
shadowed colognes · tea accords · chypre openings · citrus-to-heart bridges
How the material is made or treated
Fractionation isolates a particular register of a larger material. Heads and terpene cuts tend toward lift; hearts focus the central identity; body and bottom cuts gather weight, shadow and less-volatile depth. The crude grade keeps a broad, unpolished spectrum, often the most textural and revealing view of the source. A bottom cut explores the darker, heavier and less-volatile end of the material.
What to follow on the blotter
In perfumery vocabulary, Bergamot Crude Bottom Fraction is associated with dark bergamot peel, bitter green rind, tea, wax, soft floral and terpenic depth. Its creative role is an agile top-note instrument with vivid lift, giving structure and character to complex accords.
Archive age and character
Preserved in the HombreOils collection since before 2006, this material is at least 20 years old. It offers a rare encounter with the textures and signatures of an earlier perfumery era, ready to explore on the blotter and in new compositions.
Collection or house context
Calchauvet
Sources for this material lesson
Perfumer’s vocabulary studio
Learn the word by smelling the effect.
Professional descriptors are useful only when they connect to a real sensation. Match each term with a plain-language comparison, then return to a blotter and decide whether the word truly fits.
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