HombreOils · historical perfumery materials for creators, fragrance houses and collectors
The history of HombreOils
HombreOils brings together 265 historical materials shaped by the culture that made Grasse the birthplace of modern perfumery. Absolutes, concretes, resinoids, essences, fractions and historic bases survive here as a rare creative palette, ready to return to the perfumer’s organ.
265
historical materials
1983–2006
recorded years
11
olfactive families
367
recorded containers
An era held in scent
The collection crosses the great vocabulary of twentieth-century perfumery: flowers transformed into absolutes and concretes; woods, roots and gums drawn into resinoids; brilliant essences and precise fractions; animalic shadows; and complete bases composed to give a formula its signature.
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Grasse united flower growing, distillation, enfleurage, solvent extraction and perfume composition. HombreOils carries the material language of that world, from rose, jasmine and orris to oakmoss, labdanum, castoreum and rare house specialities.
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These materials were made to be smelled, compared and composed. Each one offers a distinct colour for the organ: lift, bloom, texture, shadow, diffusion or lasting depth.
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Recorded materials span 1983 to 2006, with the wider collection completed by 2006. Their age places them within an earlier era of extraction and compounding that cannot simply be recreated on demand.
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HombreOils opens this preserved palette to contemporary perfumers, fragrance houses and collectors, inviting new formulas to begin with materials carrying a genuine sense of perfumery history.
The Calchauvet lineage
Calchauvet emerged in January 1999 from the union of historic businesses associated with CAL (Camilli, Albert & Laloue) and Pierre Chauvet. The preserved catalogue carries this industrial lineage through numerous recorded attributions and treatment marks such as MD/DM, SPD/CD, LA, REP and TT/HT.
Danisco’s surviving company history abbreviates the merger parties as “C.A.I.” and “Chauvet”; period records separately document CAL and Pierre Chauvet et Cie. The expanded names are therefore presented as a source-qualified historical interpretation.
A living collection
Move from luminous citrus and floral absolutes to powdery orris, aromatic herbs, dark mosses, balsamic resins, gourmand extracts and historic specialities. Every family reveals another chapter of perfumery’s material imagination.
